The earliest inn in Meigle was The Angel Inn which was situated on the junction between the Dundee Road and the Ardler Road. The building appears to date from the eighteenth century but was significantly remodelled around 1840. 

In 1830, the Defiance stagecoach would stop here on its way between Edinburgh and Aberdeen. 

After closing as an inn, the building has been used as a butchers and a chip shop, before becoming a private house. 

The lower two floors of the Kinloch Arms Hotel appear to date from around 1770, with the third floor being added around 1892. It was also a coaching inn where the daily Strathmore coach would stop. 

It either started as, or later became, the Strathmore Arms as it was owned by the Lyons of Glamis. Although it was formally The Strathmore Arms, it was also often known as The New Inn or by its landlord’s surname, so in 1825 it was known as the Wilson’s Inn, before becoming Colquhoun’s in the mid-1800s when Donald Colquhoun ran the establishment. The pub was purchased by the Kinlochs of Kinloch from the Earl of Strathmore in 1878 and became, as it is today, the Kinloch Arms. 

By 1890, the Kinloch Arms was the only licensed premises in Meigle, and the only one in the parishes of Meigle, Ardler, Eassie, Ruthven and Airlie. When Mr Gellatly of Temple Hall wished to apply for a retail licence to sell alcohol, the local Justice of the Peace refused to sign his application. Mr Gellatly raised a petition signed by 200 male residents but the JP repeatedly refused to allow him submit an application for a certificate. The Justice of the Peace in question was Sir John Kinloch, the owner of the Kinloch Arms. Sir John even used the Temperance Movement's arguments about the 'evils of the demon drink' to support his case, despite being happy to benefit from the proceeds from the sale of hard liquor through his own establishment. 

A long-standing landlord of the Kinloch Arms was Thomas Leslie who had previously run The Dreadnought in Blairgowrie. He moved to Meigle in early 1892 with his wife and three sons. However, later that year, the village was shocked by the suicide of Thomas’s wife, Elizabeth. Thomas Leslie died in 1927 and his headstone stands opposite Vanora’s grave in Meigle Churchyard. 

Thomas Leslie’s youngest son, also called Thomas, emigrated to Canada. He enlisted and was gassed while fighting with the Canadians. He later became a prisoner of war but managed to escape from the camp, along with two other PoWs. Unfortunately he was recaptured just 10 yards from the frontier and was severely punished for his attempt for freedom. 

Following the death of Sir John George Smyth Kinloch, the second Baronet Kinloch in 1910, his son (…??) 

In late 1922, the Kinloch Arms was sold to the Meigle Hotel Society Limited which ran it under the name of the Meigle Inn as a 'Goth' pub, that is under the Gothenburg Public House System by which pubs were not to be attractive or welcoming in an effort to discourage drinking. The sale of spirits was not to be encouraged, no credit was to be given and betting and gambling were banned, as was any form of game or amusement - even dominoes. 

The Temple Hall, opposite the Kinloch Arms in Meigle, is known to have been a public house for many years. It was the Temple Inn in 1837 when William Brow was the innkeeper and later ran under the name of the Commercial Inn. 

The name derives from its location on land given to the Knights Templar by one of the de Meigles. The existing building originally dates from between 1795 and 1805 and three carved stones from the lost Castle of Fullerton, which stood near to the Cottage Hospital, have been built into its walls. 

In 1858 five of the Meigle Pictish Stones were discovered when an old malt kiln on the site was demolished. 

The Ardler Tavern has been the village pub for almost 150 years. The story began with the arrival in the village of Agnes Miller in 1872. In 1879 Miss Miller was described as a vintner ‘with houses and gardens’, while by 1885 she was recorded as being the owner of a ‘public house and garden’. 

This postcard view of Main Street c.1908 by the Dundee publisher James Valentine shows a horse-drawn brewer’s dray standing outside the Tavern. Little has changed in the last hundred years or so, and although recent drink-drive legislation has seen the Tavern become more of a restaurant, it remains at the heart of village life today. 

A more recent addition to the public houses of Meigle was the 'Guest House' or 'Guester' at Meigle House. It seems to have operated from around the end of World War Two but closed its doors in the 1990s.