Tour Scotland photograph of the church in Friockheim, Angus, Scotland. This Scottish church dates from 1835. Friockheim, literally translated, means Heather Home, with Friock being a derivative from the Gaelic fraoch, heather, and heim, from the German for home. The birth of the village took place soon after 1814 when Thomas Gardyne of Middleton succeeded his brother as the laird of the lands of Friock and feud them to Mr John Andson, of Arbroath, who built a flax spinning mill and as proprietor-in-feu attracted many textile workers to come and settle on easy terms in what was at first known as Friock feus.
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