Scone, Perth and Kinross

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Scone is a village in Perth and Kinross

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Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Scone within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Scone in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Scone, par. and vil., Perthshire - par., 7815 ac., pop. 2402; vil. (New Scone), on river Tay, 2 miles NE. of Perth, pop. 1483; P.O.; has a jam factory; in vicinity is Scone Palace, seat of the Earl of Mansfield, occupying the site of an abbey founded in 1114 and destroyed in 1559; Old Scone, now a decayed hamlet, 1 mile NW. of New Scone, was the capital of the kingdom of the Picts, and was long the place where the Scottish kings were crowned. The coronation-stone, or Stone of Destiny, was removed by Edward I. in 1296 to Westminster Abbey, where it now is.

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