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AUCHTERHOUSE, village and parish on south-west border of Forfarshire. The village stands 7 miles by road, but much farther by railway, north-west of Dundee, and has a post office, with telegraph, under Dundee, and a railway station. The parish measures about 4 by 3| miles, and com-prises 5708 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 10,366. Pop. 661. The surface rises from the narrow vale of Dighty water, northward to summits of the Sidlaw Hills, is diversified by undulating heights, and becomes steep and precipitous in the north. The chief residences are Auchterhouse and Balbouchly, the former an old seat of the Earl of Airlie ; and the chief antiquity is the fragment of a strong baronial fortalice, said to have been visited by Sir William Wallace. There are 2 public schools, male and female, -with about 77 and 53 scholars.