Blairlogie

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Blairlogie
Stirlingshire

Blairlogie House, Blairlogie
Location
Grid reference: NS829968
Location: 56°8’58"N, 3°53’11"W
Data
Post town: Stirling
Postcode: FK9
Dialling code: 01259
Local Government
Council: Stirling
Parliamentary
constituency:
Stirling

Blairlogie is a village in Stirlingshire, just east of Bridge of Allan and standing at the base of the great cliff of Dumyat between Stirling and Menstrie. Blairlogie mainly comprises 17th-19th-century cottages and has been declared a ‘conservation village’.

Between 1598 and 1609, the minister of Logie Parish was the poet Alexander Hume.

The cliff beneath which the village stands is the beginning of the Ochil Hills. Blairlogie is thus the westernmost of the string of village beneath the scarp of the Ochil Hills which are collectively known as the Hillfoots Villages

Outside links

Powis Mains, Blairlogie and the Ochil Hills
The Hillfoots Villages of Stirlingshire, Clackmannanshire and Perthshire

Blairlogie  • Menstrie  • Alva  • Tillicoultry  • Dollar  • Pool of Muckhart