 There is no doubt that wolves inhabited the area at one time.The monks of nearby Coupar Angus Abbey, who formerly owned the land, stipulated in certain mid-16th-century lease agreements recorded in the document known today as the "Rent Book of Coupar-Angus Abbey" (Rogers 1880; pages 251, 262) that tenants were required to ""... sustene and nwrice ane leche of hundis for tod and wolf.."" – that is to say, "...sustain and nourish a leash of hounds for (hunting) fox and wolf..".Birthplace of James Croll, FRS, joiner, janitor, librarian and arguably first world climatologist.