Kingoodie

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Kingoodie ({{langx|gd|Ceann Gaothach}} or {{lang|gd|Ceann na Gaoithe}} "windy head(land)") is a hamlet about {{convert|4 |mi}} south west of Dundee, but in the region of Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The shore is easily accessible and close to the Firth of Tay.{{cite web|title=Kingoodie|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst1246.html|publisher=Scottish Places|accessdate=4 April 2012}}

Quarries close to Kingoodie supplied the town with building stone for a number of centuries. This stone was important for the building of sea walls to protect the town from the tide and the harbour works.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} Stone for the tennis court at Falkland Palace was quarried near Kingoodie in 1540 and shipped to Lindores, north of the palace on the River Tay.Henry Paton, Accounts of the Masters of Work, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1957) pp. lii, 246, 271-2.

There is a headland jutting out to sea in front of the village.{{cite web | title=Longforgan to Kingoodie | website=Google Maps | url=https://www.google.com.au/maps/dir/Longforgan,+Dundee,+UK/Kingoodie,+Dundee+DD2+5DG,+UK/@56.4511259,-3.0753089,734m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x4886415fe9191c67:0xfdae6c3c48d40b09!2m2!1d-3.119117!2d56.454791!1m5!1m1!1s0x48864399e3017af9:0xe95e16a84a0f3686!2m2!1d-3.0748508!2d56.4515948!3e0 | access-date=6 October 2020}} This is mentioned in Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882–4) in the Drimmie entry.{{cite web | title=Drimmie - As described in F.H. Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4) | website=A Vision of Britain through Time | url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/105330 | access-date=6 October 2020}}{{cite web | title=Longforgan from The Gazetteer for Scotland | website=Gazetteer for Scotland | url=https://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst1267.html | access-date=6 October 2020}}