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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Anstruther	Fife	Anstruther , seaport and market town, on E. coast, of Fife, 8¾ miles E. of Thornton Junction by rail, pop. (comprising the parl. burghs of Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester	Bartholomew
  Anstruther	Fife	Anstruther, a fishing and seaport town of SE Fife, comprising the royal and parliamentary burghs of Anstruther-Easter and Anstruther-Wester	Groome
  Anstruther Wester	Fife	Anstruther Wester , parl. and royal burgh and par., Fife -- par., 911 ac., pop. 673; parl. and royal burgh, pop. 594; the burgh	Bartholomew
  Burntisland	Fife	westerly and a northerly direction, including several acres of the foreshore. How great already has been the effect of the improvements, may be seen in the growth of the harbour revenue from £197 in 1860 and £1622 in 1875, to £16,519 in 1879, £14,785 in 1880, and £11,000 in the first 7 months of 1881. The quantity, too, of coal exported has risen from 190,061 tons in 1876 to 230,132 in 1877,368,480 in 1878,450,636 in 1879, 460,664 in 1880, and 296,694 in the first	Groome
  Carnbee	Fife	Anstruther-Wester, Pittenweem, and Abercrombie, SW and W by Kilconquhar. Its greatest length from E to W is 5 1 / 8 miles	Groome
  Dreel	Fife	Anstruther-Wester, and Anstruther-Easter on the left, till it falls into the Firth of Forth at Anstruther old harbour	Groome
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	Edinburgh, the metropolis of Scotland and county town of Midlothian, is situated 2 miles S of the Firth of Forth	Groome
  Elie or Ely	Fife	Anstruther, 14 ENE of Thornton Junction, and 34 NE of Edinburgh. In bygone times a place of some importance, it retains a few antique mansions in a street near the beach, but mainly consists of modern well-built houses. It has for a long time been a place of considerable resort for summer sea-bathing, but carries on little trade, although it possesses an excellent natural harbour, much improved by quays and a pier, and affording safe and accessible shelter during gales from the W or SW. The bay is 7 furlongs wide across the entrance, and thence measures	Groome
  Fife or Fifeshire	Fife	Anstruther-Easter (207), Anstruther-Wester (86), Crail (190), Cupar (733), Kilrenny (348), and Pittenweem (304), with a total constituency of 2634. The royal	Groome
  Grangemuir	Fife	Anstruther-Wester parish, Fife, 1¼ mile NNW of Pittenweem. Its owner, Walter DouglasIrvine, Esq. (b. 1825; suc. 1867), holds	Groome
  Grangemuir House	Fife	Grangemuir House , seat, Anstruther Wester par., Fife, 1¼ mile NW. of Pittenweem.	Bartholomew
  Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire	Lanarkshire, one of the south-western counties of Scotland, and the most important county of the country. It ranks only	Groome
  North British Railway	Berwickshire Midlothian	westerly points, besides holding in the N a half share of the Dundee and Arbroath railway, the lines by the coast to Montrose and Bervie, and running powers to Aberdeen. Its southern termini are Berwick, Hexham, Carlisle, and Silloth, and the other terminal points to which it reaches are Airdrie, Wishaw, Hamilton, Glasgow, Helensburgh, Larbert, Perth, and Bervie. Besides this there are a number of branch and cross lines that fill up the scheme, such as the branches to Kelso (where the Berwick branch of the North-Eastern railway is joined), to Langholm, Jedburgh, and Selkirk; the line from Newtown	Groome
  Pittenweem	Fife	Anstruther-Wester (landward), E by Anstruther-Wester (burghal), S by the Firth of Forth, W by the parish of St Monans	Groome
  Shetland	Shetland	Wester Anstruther, Crail, Kilrenny, and Pittenweem in sending a member to parliament (always a Liberal since 1837), and is the returning	Groome
  St Andrews	Fife	Scotland. The St Andrews District of Parliamentary Burghs (St Andrews, Crail, Cupar, Anstruther Easter, Anstruther Wester, Kilrenny, and Pittenweem) returns 1 member.	Bartholomew
  St Andrews	Fife	Wester Anstruther, Crail, Kilrenny, and Pittenweem in sending a member to parliament (always a Liberal since 1837), and is the returning	Groome
  St Andrews	Fife	Anstruther-Easter, Anstruther-Wester, Cameron, Carnbee, Crail, Dunino, Elie, Ferry Port on Craig, Forgan, Kemback, Kilconquhar, Kilrenny, Kingsbarns, Largo, Leuchars	Groome
  Watten	Caithness	Wester Watten, and of Picts' houses or weems; and NW of the church at Stonehone is a standing-stone, said to mark the burial place of Skuli, Jarl of Orkney, who, according to Torfaeus, was buried at Hofn, though Hofn is more probably rather to be identified with Huna. Backlass, 2 miles W by S of the village, was in the end of last century the dwelling-place of a noted robber, David Marshall, who seems to have been a northern Rob Roy. To the N of Loch Watten the parish is traversed for 4½ miles by the Georgemas	Groome

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