Fossoway

Fossoway parish church in Crook of Devon.

Fossoway or Fossaway is a parish chiefly in Perthshire, but partly in Kinross-shire, containing the villages of Blairingone, Crook of Devon, and Carnbo, and comprising the ancient parishes of Fossoway and Tulliebole, united in about 1614.

It is bounded to the north by Dunning, north-east by Orwell, east by Kinross, south-east by Cleish, south by Torryburn and Saline in Fife, south-west by Clackmannan and Dollar in Clackmannanshire, and west by Muckart and Glendevon. Its length, from east-north-east to west-south-west, varies between 2¼ and 8¾ miles; its utmost breadth, from north to south, is 5½ miles; and its area is 17,356½ acres, of which 6,904¼ belong to Kinross-shire.