Meikleton
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Meikleton by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.
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Meikleton
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 11 Feb 2015
The house and buildings are in this square, but the lie of the land is such that the fields are in adjacent squares. The distant farm near the top of the slope opposite is Nether Comisty. Interestingly, the second edition of the six-inch map names this as Mains of Lessendrum, and the first edition doesn't show it here at all, showing instead that Meikletown was further up the brae, near Image See http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=57.4623&lon=-2.69384&layers=5 and http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=57.4623&lon=-2.69384&layers=6
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Image Location
Latitude
57.462141
Longitude
-2.693554