In 1885 Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, then Lord Privy Seal and later Prime Minister, purchased Belmont Estate. He improved the castle and grounds. Sir Henry died at 10 Downing Street in 1908.  

The Church of Scotland ran Belmont Castle as an eventide home for quite a few years. As such it was declared open by the Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, on 15 September 1941. 

Meigle House may stand on the site of an earlier house as it contains many cellars below ground level. The present house dates from 1796 when Mr Patrick Murray XXXXX

A letter to the Dundee Advertiser of 15 February 1877 suggests that the Mansion House of Meigle and its surroundings, which were for some time occupied as an educational seminary for boys but whose lease was shortly to expire, was the perfect place to open a hydropathic establishment. Nothing more than a few letters, for and against the idea, materialised. 

The Cottage Hospital was built and endowed by Mrs Edward Cox, Cardean, in memory of her husband, who died of pneumonia in 1913 at the age of 62. The Cox family had extensive business interests in Dundee, and their name is memorialised by Cox’s Stack in Lochee.  

In 1876/7 Sir George Kinloch of Kinloch, Baronet, who was interested in all things historical connected to his estate of Meigle, found that creating a museum for the Pictish stones that were standing in the churchyard and those found buried under the floor of a demolished corn kiln at Templehall on the north side of Forfar Road opposite the church was not as straightforward a job as he had hoped. 

As a new village school was being built at this time, Sir George let it be known that when the old school, situated to the south-west of the churchyard, became vacant he wished to buy it so that a museum could be set up to protect these ancient stones. However, some of the locals opposed his idea as they said that they could see the stones at any time and did not think it right that they should have to pay to enter a museum to see them; they encouraged the idea that a better use of the old school would be to have it converted into a public hall. 

The old school was advertised for sale by public roup with the upset price for the building and its adjoining land set at £250. There were only three bidders when the auction took place in March 1877 but the competition proved to be exceedingly keen with the winning bid of £650 made by Mr Charles Boyd from Coupar Angus on behalf of Sir George and his associates. Sir George then had the stones moved into the old school. 

Sir George may have won the auction but his troubles were far from over as he was summoned to appear before the Presbytery of Meigle (a higher court than the Kirk Session) as he had moved the majority of the stones from the sacred ground of the kirkyard without the Church’s permission. Sir George solved this problem by offering the ground which the old school stood on to become part of the kirkyard and this was accepted by the church.  

Meigle Museum contains 26 Pictish carved stones, some large, some small and some only fragments of long lost stones. The stones demonstrate that Meigle must have been an important Pictish place from at least the late eighth or early ninth century until the late tenth century and the collection is one of the most important of early medieval sculpture in western Europe.

Ardler War Memorial may be the first public war memorial of the Great War erected in Scotland. It was formally dedicated on 19 January 1919 but it was built in March/April 1918, while the war was still in progress. 

​The memorial is 18 feet high, built of Camperdown stone and consists of a cross resting on an octagonal pedestal. The names on the memorial are now badly weathered but, beside the memorial, there is now a marble memorial tablet, which was originally within the, now closed, Ardler Parish Church. 

The central face of the memorial is inscribed with the text 'To the Glory of God and in Memory of the Fallen in the Great War 1914 – 1919*; 1939-1945; Lord Have Mercy'. 

The faces on either side now commemorate 12 men who fell in the First World War, but there were only 10 names on the memorial when it was first erected. The names of two men from the Second World War were also added to these faces and their names also appear on the marble plaque. However, a thirteenth casualty of the First World War from the village also appears on the plaque. 

​On one of the other faces, the name of an airman from the village, who was killed in the conflict in Afghanistan in 2006, has been added. 

​* Although the conflict ended with the Armistice of 11 November 1918, the state of war was only rescinded with the Treaty of Versailles on 20 June 1919

The Meigle War Memorial is located at the entrance to Victory Park on Ardler Road in Meigle. 

It was designed by the Dundee architectural practice of John Bruce and Sons (later Bruce, Son & Morton) and was built in 1921. 

It consists of a round-headed arch of hammer-dressed stone under a tiled 'bonnet' or 'reverse-gambrel' roof. This is a roof with the pitch divided into a steep slope above a shallower slope. The arch is bordered on each side by recessed, curved stone bench seats. On each side of the gateway entrance to the arch is a marble memorial panel. 

​The plans for a War Memorial in Meigle were developed by a committee chaired by George Tasker of Arnbog Farm. The memorial was unveiled on 1 October 1921 by the Duke of Atholl. 

About three-quarters of a mile from the centre of Ardler on the road to Meigle there is a small cluster of houses. Facing the road there is a long stone building which formerly had steadings belonging to Mains of Camno Farm but is now divided into private houses. One of these houses has an interesting round building at the front, consisting of large windows between strong stone pillars, which must make a beautiful round room from within the house, but why is it there?   

The original purpose of this building was the farm’s horse mill. As farms did not have electricity until well into the 20th century, some farmers had to hire millers with their large portable mills, pulled by equally large coal-burning tractors to carry out their milling, while others whose farm was next to a river or stream were able to use the power of the water to drive their mill wheels. An alternative solution was to use the farm’s horse to provide the power and this was done by building horse mills as part of the farm.  

These horse mills were round buildings where the horses could be employed to go round and round turning the millwheel. They usually consisted of strong stone pillars holding up a conical roof, but of course they would not have the lovely windows as we see on this example today. There are another two horse mills still used as farm buildings near Meigle: you can see the roof of one within the buildings at Todpark Farm, just after the bend while travelling from Meigle towards Alyth, while the other is clearly seen at Longlogie Farm about two and a half miles east of Meigle on the main road to Forfar. It is nice to see the Mains of Camno one restored and being incorporated as part of this house.     

Arthurstone is named after a large standing stone (similar to Macbeth's Stone) which was destroyed to make building material to build Arthurbank Farm in 1791.    

The present mansion, which was erected by Mr George Kinloch of Kinloch and dates from about 1798 or 1801, replaced an older building which stood nearer to Balmyle Farm and the village of Meigle. 

At the south side of the A94 road opposite the main entrance to the Kinloch Estate stands a red stone building which looks like a small church. This building is the private burial place, or mausoleum, of the Kinloch of Kinloch family. It is built on the site of the pre-Reformation chapel of St Mary. 

The architect who was employed to design the present building was a Mr Carver who built himself a cottage on land just to the west of the mausoleum that he named Carverfield. 

The first record we have of the pre-Reformation chapel is found in the mid-ninth century Register of St Andrews. It shows that it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and is mentioned along with the church of St Peter in Miggil (Meigle). 

The ivy-covered ruins of this chapel were removed when the Kinloch Mausoleum was erected on the site in 1861 but this may include some part of the old building as it contains an alter that was the burial place of George Oliphant Kinloch who died in 1775, well before the present building was erected.

Kinpurnie Castle is a very clear landmark that can be seen from the Meigle Ardler Heritage Trail. 

Midway between Ardler and the crossroads leading from the A94 to East Camno Farm there is a z-bend where the road runs for a short distance in a south-easterly direction. If you look straight ahead (to the south-east) you will see a white mansion sitting on the tree-covered slopes in front of you, this is Kinpurnie Castle. Kinpurnie Castle is not an ancient building having been built in 1907/08. It was built to plans produced by Thoms and W XXXXX