NEW INSURANCE SCHEME FOR VILLAGE HALLS

Three rural community councils have launched a scheme offering insurance cover to village halls.
The Village Halls Plus Group - which consists of three rural community councils - will offer village halls across the UK a range of
packages, including cover for special events, loss of revenue and material damage.
 
The councils involved are:
Suffolk Acre, Community Lincs and Community First

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Clova Village

The present settlement of Clova dates back to at least the 1400's where it provided support to Clova Castle. Other earlier settlements dating back to Neolithic and Bronze Age times exist throughout the glen.

More recent settlements in Clova have since disappeared, such as the Drums, which once included a joiners shop and the blacksmiths as well as the cotter house for nearby Kilburn Farm. Now all that remains are 2 cottages by the roadside.

The Victorian era saw the building of shooting lodges at Bachnagairn (now no longer in existence), Glen Doll (was the SYA Youth Hostel until December 2001) and Rottal (now a private house). During this time we also saw the building of the present Clova Kirk and Manse (now Brandy Burn House) and a drovers inn The Ogilvy Arms (now The Glen Clova Hotel), which all add to the spectacular buildings of the glen.

Inchdowrie House, by contrast, was only built in the twentieth century. It was built by the stonemasons of Glamis for the Queen Mother's mother. It then became a convalescent home for soldiers in the First World War and is now a private house.

Cullow Market

Half a mile up the road from Dykehead lies the hamlet of Cullow, where a market and sheep fair used to be held. In the 1840s between eight and twelve thousand sheep were brought in over Jock’s Road and other drove roads for auction at Cullow on the 4th Monday in October and the last Friday in April. The population in those days was much bigger: in 1755 Cortachy and Clova had 1,233 inhabitants, and in the 1790s the area supported three smiths, four carpenters, three millers, three shopkeepers and ten sellers of strong drink.

Rottal

Rottal Lodge was built as a shooting lodge, but in 1675 it was the site of a mill owned by Alexander Lindsay. In 1755 the Clachan of Rottal was recorded as having ‘sixty reekin lums’ (smoking chimneys) for the purposes of taxation - the chimney tax was a precursor of window tax. The community at Rottal grew, prepared and spun flax.

Milton of Clova

Clova Hotel stands the partially restored meal mill. It was near the hotel, perhaps where the car park now stands, that Lord Ogilvy’s Regiment was disbanded on 21^st April 1746. The Regiment had fired two volleys at Culloden before retreating from the field in good order and providing covering fire for many escaping Highlanders. Their retreat took them over the Capel Mounth from Braemar. Lord Ogilvy went into hiding around Loch Brandy and Loch Wharral before escaping by ship from Dundee to Bergen and France.

Caddam

Caddam lies on the opposite side of the glen. This is where Margaret Adamson was burned for witchcraft in 1662 on Witch’s Hillock. The same year, a new inn was built, and, in keeping with superstition, Rowan branches were hung over the door and a dog put in through a window for good luck before anyone entered.