Crossword-Solution: GLENEAGLES 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The gap before us is Gleneagles,--Glen-eccles--Kirk glen--one of the passes into the Lowlands of Fife and Kinross, by which, it may be, Agricola found his way into Strathearn after the conquest of Fife.

Northwards it reached even the banks of the Almond, while southwards it found its way into the uplands of Strathallan, and, breaking by the pass of Gleneagles into the Ochils, it went right through them to the level ground beyond, following the windings of the Devon.

The Abbey of Inchaffray thus held the appointment to the parish of Strageath, and, in spite of many changes, the minister of the parish still receives part of his stipend from "the great vicarage teind of the Abbey of Inchaffray." In pre-Reformation times there were two other ecclesiastical buildings in the parish besides the Church of Strageath--Tullibardine College and Gleneagles Chapel.

The old lairds of Gleneagles are buried within its walls, and the enclosed space about it has been used as a graveyard.

The Session Records have an entry showing that the chapel was used as late as March 18, 1705--"Being that the Lady Gleneagles was brought to bed of a child, and the laird was desirous to have his child baptized on the Lord's Day, and was unwilling to bring him out so far as the kirk because of the seasons being yet cold and sometimes stormy.