Kinross

Kinross
/kin raws", -ros"/, n.
a historic county in E Scotland. Also called Kinrossshire /kin raws"shear, -sheuhr, -ros"-/.

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 small burgh (town), Perth and Kinross council area, historic county of Kinross-shire, Scotland, located on Loch Leven (Leven, Loch). The burgh, 30 miles (50 km) north of Edinburgh along the motorway (superhighway) to Perth, is primarily a residential town, with a local agricultural market centre and a cashmere-spinning mill. Lochleven Castle, on an island in the lake, was the scene of the imprisonment (1567–68) of Mary, Queen of Scots. Kinross House (1685–92), designed by Sir William Bruce, is situated on the peninsula east of the burgh. Kinross is the historic county town (seat) of Kinross-shire. Pop. (2001) 4,681.

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