Deuchny Wood Explained

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Deuchny Wood (also known as Deuchny Woodland Park) is a Forestry and Land Scotland site in Perth, Scotland.[1] in size, it is adjacent to Kinnoull Hill Woodland Park, of which Deuchny Hill is one of the five constituent hills (the others being Kinnoull Hill, Corsiehill, Barnhill and Binn).[1]

The wood is home to a prehistoric hillfort, referred to as "Iqudonbeg" in 1403,[2] at which several artefacts have been discovered.[3]

Deuchny Burn flows out of the woods to the south, while Langley Burn cuts through its northeastern corner.[4]

Jonathan Gloag, the 28-year-old son of Stagecoach Group co-founder Ann Gloag, hanged himself in Deuchny Wood in 1999.[5]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/woods/kinnoull-hill-woodland-park-deuchny-wood/ Kinnoull Hill Woodland Park, Deuchny Wood
  2. https://canmore.org.uk/site/28217/deuchny-wood Deuchny Wood
  3. South-East Perth: An Archaeological Landscape, P. Corser, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (1994),
  4. An Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland: Tayside, Central and Fife, Land Use Consultants (1987), p. 188
  5. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12246868.gloag-sons-mourners-told-of-close-family-ties/ "Gloag son's mourners told of close family ties"