In it, William the Lion granted Ralph Rufus "Kinnaird in its right divisions except Petmeodhel belonging to Richard my clerk".

[4] By 1783, two more touns had been established on land belonging to Pitmiddle, effectively depriving it of most of its farmland.

[4] Today, hidden amongst farmland and woods, the only remnants of the community are a few crumbling walls and the wild redcurrant and gooseberry bushes that once grew in the residents' gardens.

[7] On a 1783 map by James Stobie, Pitmiddle appeared as an irregularly shaped cluster of dwellings.

An open hearth would have provided heat, possibly with a hole in the roof to extract smoke.

Enclosing the settlement was a ditch, beyond which was the arable land, and separated from it by the head dyke was the pasture.

[4] The main crops grown at Pitmeddle, per three 17th century rent rolls, were bere (a four-eared variety of barley) and oats.

Also, Edmund Jackson was fined ten shillings for "striking the common hird on the Sabbath".

[10] Early in the 19th century, the homes at Pitmiddle were rebuilt in stone, seemingly on the site of their timber predecessors.

A once-thriving community of weavers, a blacksmith, two joiners, a tailor, a butcher and a public house[7] was now seeing young people leaving to work in the factories in nearby Dundee and Perth.

The reporters visited Maidie Mitchell and her sister, "two very old ladies" who had spent their entire lives in Pitmiddle.

[13] On an Ordnance Survey map of 1861, a "mill dam" is shown southeast of the settlement, towards today's Guardswell Farm.

[14] Following the breakup of the Inchmartine estate in 1917, Pitmiddle was eventually bought by the family of John White and farmed from Outfield.