Strathmartine

Strathmartine
Strathmartine
	class=notpageimage\| Location within Angus class=notpageimage\| Location near the Dundee City council area
OS grid reference	NO387348
Lieutenancy area	Angus;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DUNDEE
Postcode district	DD4
Dialling code	01382
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Dundee East;
Scottish Parliament	Angus South;
	List of places UK Scotland 56°30′05″N 2°59′51″W / 56.501263°N 2.997399°W

Strathmartine is an area of Angus, Scotland (named after a local mythical hero, Strathmartin The Dragonslayer).^[1] It is to the north of Dundee^[2] and the surrounding district is often referred to as "the Howe o Strathmartine".

The parishes of Mains and Strathmartine were united on 21 Nov 1792. Anciently, Mains was called Earl's Strathdichty, Strathmartine was called Strathdichty Martin. The Dichty Water flows through the parishes.^[3]^[4]

William Lorimer, the classicist, known for producing a translation of the New Testament in Lowland Scots was born in Strathmartine. Baldovan village to the north was once the home to Strathmartine Hospital which was a long stay hospital for people with severe learning disabilities.^[5]

Notable residents

Very Rev Francis Nicoll, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1809 and later Principal of St Andrews University was parish minister of Strathmartine from 1799 to 1819.^[6]
William Lorimer, the classicist, known for producing a translation of the New Testament in Lowland Scots was born in Strathmartine.

References

^ Shand, William. "The Dundee Dragon". The Dundee Messenger. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ "Dundee and Montrose, Forfar and Arbroath", Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (B2 ed.), 2007, ISBN 0-319-22980-7
^ "Mains and Strathmartine". Retrieved 11 November 2013.
^ Warden, Alex J (1880). Angus or Forfarshire, the land and people, descriptive and historical. Vol. II. pp. 252–253. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
^ "Strathmartine Hospital". Historic Hospitals. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
^ Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; vol. 7; by Hew Scott