Camuston
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Camuston was a village that once existed in Angus
Angus
Angus is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and Dundee City...

, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 until the late 18th/early 19th centuries. No trace of it can be found today, but its former location on land between Panmure House
Panmure House
Panmure House was a 17th-century country house in the Parish of Panbride, Angus, Scotland, to the north of Carnoustie. It was the seat of the Earl of Panmure. It was rebuilt in the 19th century, and demolished in 1955....

 and Camustane Hill can be seen for example in the 1794 map by Ainslie, about half a mile to the East of the Camus Cross
Camus Cross
The Camus Cross, otherwise known as the Camuston or Camustane Cross, is an Early Medieval Scottish standing stone located on the Panmure Estate near Carnoustie in Angus, Scotland...

Camuston can be found with earlier spelling variations, for example, 'Cambistown' as it is called in documents from 1425-6, and has a Celtic rather than Scandinavian etymology.
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