A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Beld Craig, a romantic dell in Moffat parish, Dumfriesshire, 3¼ miles SSE of Moffat town. It takes its name from a magnificent overhanging rock; and it is traversed by a brook which makes a curious cataract. Belhaven, a coast village and a quoad sacra parish in Dunbar parish, Haddingtonshire. The village stands at the SE corner of Belhaven Bay, 1 mile W by S of Dunbar, and is included in the parliamentary burgh. With splendid sands and numerous handsome villas, it is the watering place of Dunbar townsfolk; at it are an Established church (stipend, £120), a now neglected sulphurous spring, and a public school, which, with accommodation for 122 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 59, and a grant of £45,4s. It gives a title in the Scottish peerage to James Hamilton, ninth Baron Belhaven and Stenton, a title created in 1647, and dormant from 1868 to 1875. Pop. of village (1861) 405, (1871) 369, (1881) 420. Pop. of q. s. parish, in the presbytery of Dunbar and synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, (1871) 1271, (1881) 1344.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a romantic dell" (ADL Feature Type: "valleys") |
| Administrative units: | Moffat ScoP Dumfries Shire ScoCnty |
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