Editing Milnathort

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{{Infobox UK place
|official_name = Milnathort
|country = Scotland
|static_image_name = Jolly Beggars, Milnathort - geograph.org.uk - 1654336.jpg
|static_image_caption = The centre of Milnathort in winter
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|unitary_scotland = [[Perth and Kinross]]
|lieutenancy_scotland = [[Perth and Kinross]]
|constituency_westminster = [[Ochil and South Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Ochil and South Perthshire]]
|constituency_scottish_parliament = [[Perthshire South and Kinross-shire (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Perthshire South and Kinross-shire]]
|post_town = KINROSS
|postcode_district = KY13
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}}

'''Milnathort''' is a small town in the parish of [[Orwell, Kinross-shire|Orwell]] in the county of [[Kinross-shire]], Scotland and since 1996, the local council area of [[Perth and Kinross]]. The smaller neighbour of nearby [[Kinross]], Milnathort has a population of around 2,000 people. It is situated amidst countryside at the foot of the [[Ochil Hills]],<ref name="GfS">{{cite web |title=Milnathort: Overview |url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst152.html |website=Gazetteer for Scotland |access-date=6 November 2018}}</ref> and near the north shore of [[Loch Leven (Kinross)|Loch Leven]]. From 1977 it became more easily accessible due to the development of the [[M90 motorway]]. The name comes from the Gaelic ''maol coirthe'' meaning "bare hill of the standing stones".<ref>{{cite book|last=Liddall|first=W.|title=The Place Names of Fife and Kinross|publisher=William Green & Sons|date=1896|url=https://archive.org/stream/placenamesoffife00lidd#page/42/mode/2up|access-date=12 May 2015|location=Edinburgh}}</ref>

==Amenities==
[[File:Town Hall, Milnathort - geograph.org.uk - 1861298.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Milnathort Town Hall]]  ]]
Milnathort's amenities are typical of a small Scottish town with a nine-hole golf course, a park, countryside bike path, primary school, a range of pubs, cafés and a shop selling ice cream.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hinds |first1=Alice |title=Ice ice baby: Meet family's youngest recruit making business a sweet success |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/family-kids/ice-ice-baby-meet-familys-10240889 |access-date=6 November 2018 |work=Daily Record |date=16 April 2017}}</ref> [[Milnathort Town Hall]] was completed in 1855.<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|desc=Town Hall, Milnathort|num=LB17638|access-date=1 October 2022}}</ref>

==Church==
The main church in Milnathort was built as a [[Secessionist movements in Europe|Secessionist Church]] in the north of the town and known as the Orwell Church which was built as a chapel in 1741 by the Old Light Burghers and rebuilt in 1821.<ref name = ewing/> It amalgamated briefly with the [[Church of Scotland]] in 1839 before transferring to the [[Free Church of Scotland (1843–1900)|Free Church of Scotland]] in 1843.<ref>''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''</ref> The [[manse]] was erected by the Free church in 1850 to house Rev James Thornton (1791-1874).<ref name = ewing>Ewing ''Annals of the Free Church''</ref> The most notable minister was [[Walter Chalmers Smith]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst82.html|title= Walter Chalmers Smith |publisher= Gazetteer for Scotland |access-date=30 September 2022}}</ref>

==Schools==
The only school is Milnathort Primary School. The high school is Loch Leven Community Campus, just outside the town.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.liveactive.co.uk/Venues/loch-leven-community-campus |title= Loch Leven Community Campus|publisher=Live Active|access-date=1 October 2022}}</ref>

==Notable people==
*[[John Calder]], publisher
*Prof [[David Hepburn]] [[FRSE]], [[anatomist]], President of the [[Anatomical Society]] 1916–1918.
*[[Laura Muir]], [[Middle-distance running|middle-distance runner]]
*[[Lucinda Russell]], [[2017 Grand National|2017]] and [[2023 Grand National|2023]] Grand National-winning horse trainer
*[[Walter Chalmers Smith]], Free Church minister and poet<ref name="GfS"/>
*[[Frankie Poullain]], bassist for rock band [[The Darkness (band)]], was raised in Milnathort.

== References ==
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==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100605033151/http://www.milnathortprimary.org.uk/ Milnathort Primary School]

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