Madderty is a village in Strathearn,

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland and S ...

. It lies on the former railway line connecting Perth and Crieff. The Gask Ridge and its

Roman road Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...

lie to the south and the remains of Inchaffray Abbey to the north. Madderty is mentioned in a charter of about 1200, at which time there was a church dedicated to Saint

Ethernan Ethernan (or Ithernan, Etharnan, Itarnan) was a 7th century Scottish martyr and saint. Life and death Almost nothing is known about Ethernan's life. It has been speculated that he may have been a monk of Iona due to his death being mentioned ...

in the village. The prominent agricultural zoologist Dr Daniel MacLagan

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(1904-1991) was born on Williamstone Farm here and later ran the farm.https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/maclagan_daniel.pdf

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Gazetteer for Scotland
Villages in Perth and Kinross {{PerthKinross-geo-stub