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    Place name County Entry Source
    Carronhall Stirlingshire Stirlingshire, on river Carron, 2 miles NE. of Larbert sta., pop. 313; in vicinity is the seat of Carron Hall . Bartholomew
    Denny Stirlingshire hall, library, and reading-room, an Oddfellows' hall, and fairs on the Wednesdays before 12 May and after 11 November. Large public schools were built in 1875 at a cost of £5000; and places of worship are the parish church (1813; 768 sittings) with a turreted steeple 75 feet high, a Free church (1843), a U.P. church (1796; reconstructed 1881), and the Roman Catholic church of St Patrick (1861). In 1876 Denny and Dunipace were formed into a police burgh, which, governed by 9 commissioners, had a municipal constituency of 580 in 1882. Pop. of Denny alone Groome
    Dumfriesshire Dumfries Shire Dumfriesshire, a coast and Border county in the S of Scotland. It is bounded N by Lanark, Peebles, and Selkirk Groome
    Elginshire or Moray Moray Carron it crosses to Elginshire, and with the exception of about 3/4 mile near Ballindalloch, remains in Elginshire till it passes into Inverness-shire, about 2 miles E of Grantown. It joins the Highland railway system at Boat of Garten. There was at one time a branch line connecting the Great North (Morayshire) system at Rothes with the Highland system at Orton, but it has not been worked for a number of years. A bill has now (1882) passed through Parliament, granting powers for the construction of a railway along the coast, from Elgin to Portsoy. This line will, when Groome
    Falkirk Stirlingshire Carron Iron-works, and 7½ miles ENE of Linlithgow; whilst from two North British stations- (1852), at the town, and Falkirk, on the Edinburgh and Glasgow section (1842), ¾ mile SSW-it is 25½ miles W by N of Edinburgh, 3 SW of Grangemouth, 11 SSE of Stirling, and 21¾ ENE of Glasgow. The site is partly a gentle hill-side, partly low level ground on the southern skirt of the Carse of Forth, and commands magnificent views of the Ochils, the Denny and Campsie Hills, and the Grampian Mountains. The town itself, as seen from vantage Groome
    Grangemouth Stirlingshire Carron, is a lighthouse with fixed light seen 10 miles. Shipbuilding (principally of iron steamers) is carried on, and there are sawmills, brick and tile works, and a rope and sail factory. Grangemouth has a Public Institute, opened 1876; a public park, presented by the Earl of Zetland, 1882; and a Town Hall Bartholomew
    Kilsyth Stirlingshire Kilsyth, a town and a parish on the southern border of Stirlingshire. The town, standing within 5 furlongs of the Groome
    Kincardineshire Kincardineshire Kincardineshire (often called The Mearns), a maritime county on the eastern seaboard of Scotland. It is bounded N and NW Groome
    Kirkcaldy Fife Kirkcaldy (anc. Kyrc-aldyn ), a seaport, a royal and parliamentary burgh, the seat of a presbytery, a market and manufacturing Groome
    Knockando Moray Carron station, both on the Speyside section of the Great North of Scotland railway. Archiestown was founded in 1760 by Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk, on an open moor, called the Moor of Ballintomb, and though it did not at first thrive, and was almost entirely destroyed by an accidental fire in 1783, it is now an average country village. There is a post office under Craigellachie, which is the telegraph and money order office. The parish church is 3 miles to the W of Archiestown, and almost midway between the eastern and western limits. It is a long narrow Groome
    Penicuik Midlothian hall is adorned with statuary and with Roman antiquities from Cramond and Middlebie; and the roof of the great drawing-room or ` Ossian's Hall ' is painted with twelve life-size figures, by Runciman, of characters in the poems of ossian. The grounds, 1000 acres in extent, are of great beauty, the house itself standing on a level holm in a bend-of the river, with a picturesque glen behind carrying up the view to the ruins of Brunstane Castle and the western extremity of the Pentlands—a little plain in front, gemmed with pond and garden, and overhung Groome
    Stirlingshire Stirlingshire Carron Hall, Clober House, Colzium House, Craigbarnet House, Craigend Castle, Craigforth House, Craigmaddie House, Craigton, Culcreuch, Denovan, Dougalston House, Duchray Groome
    Stonehaven Kincardineshire Carron and Cowie, in the parish of Fetteresso. It is well built, and has its streets, laid off at right angles, passing out from a central square. A bridge across the Carron connects the two towns, and another carries the N road over the Water of Cowie. In the old town the only thing of note is the old well and the public barometer set up in 1852. In the new town there is a market house in the square, erected in 1827, with a steeple 130 feet high. In Allardyce Street is a new town-hall Groome
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