Gazetteer of Scotland

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ArgylesHre, an inn, Established and Free
churches, and a public school with about
70 scholars. — The parish extends 18 miles
along Loch Fyne, and is from 3 to 8 miles
broad. Real property in 1880-81, £7810.
Pop. 932. About one-twentieth of the
land, chiefly in two vales, is arable ;
most of the rest of the area is filled with
an assemblage of lofty verdant hills ; and
a portion in the south-east is occupied with
the upper part of Loch Eck. Chief seats
are Strachur, Strachurmore, Glenshellis,
Ballimore, Glenbrantir,and Castle-Lachlan;
and an object of curious interest and of
popular superstition is a conspicuous stone
on an eminence commanding an extensive
view. The parochial church of the annexed
parish of Stralachlan stands 6 miles south-
south-west of Strachur hamlet. There are
3 schools for 156 scholars, and 1 of them
and an enlargement for 100 are new.
STRAE, rivulet, traversing Glenstrae
south-south-westward to head of north-
east branch of Loch Awe, in Argyleshire.
STRAFONTANE, ancient parish, now
part of Abbey St. Bathans, in Berwick-
shire.
STRAGEATH, quondam Roman camp on
the Earn near Innerpeffray, Perthshire.
STRAIT, medicinal spring in Muthill
parish, Perthshire.
STRAITON, village and parish in east of
Carrick, Ayrshire. The village stands 6§
miles south-east of Maybole, and has a
post office under Maybole, a parochial
church with 414 sittings, and a public
school with about 89 scholars. — The parish
is divided quoad sacra into Straiton and
Patna, measures about 20 miles by 8, and
comprises 49,801 acres. Real property in
1879-80, £15,012. Pop., quoad civilia,
1241 ; quoad sacra, 701. The Doon
traces the northern boundary, the Girvan
runs through the centre, and numerous
burns and lakes are in the interior. Low
grounds adjacent to the two rivers, and
gentle ascents on their flanks, are arable,
but nearly all the rest of the ground is
loftily hilly, and either pastoral or waste.
Two conspicuous summits are near the
village, and command extensive views ;
and one of them is crowned by a fine
monument to Colonel Blair. Chief seats
are Blairquhan, Berbeth, and a noble
shooting-lodge ; and chief antiquities are
cairns. There is a Free church at Straiton,
and Established and United Presbyterian
churches are in Patna. Three schools,
all new, for 303 scholars are in the
parish.
STRAITON, lands with ruined tower in
Logie parish, Fife.
STRAITON, place in Liberton parish,
Edinburghshire .
STRALACHLAN, ancient parish, now
annexed to Strachur, Argyleshire. Its
church and a public school stand 6 miles
south-south-west of Strachur hamlet.
STRALOCH, place in Strathardle
section of Moulin parish, Perthshire. It
has an Established church, served by a
missionary on the royal bounty, and a
public school with about 85 scholars.
STRALOCH, seat in New Machar parish,
Aberdeenshire.
STRAMORE, islet and inn adjacent to
north-east of North Uist Island, Outer
Hebrides.
STRANAMBAN, lake, about 5 miles in
circuit, on east side of Mull Island, Argyle-
shire.
STRANATHRO, coast _ village in
Fetteresso village, Kincardineshire.
STRAND, place, with ruined old chapel,
in Fetlar parish, Shetland.
STRANDIBURGH, headland on east side
of Fetlar Island, Shetland.
STRANDUFF, estate in Kincardine
O'Neil parish, Aberdeenshire.
STRANFASKET, seat in Kells parish,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
STRANITH. See Nithsdale.
STRANRAER, seaport town and parish
in west of Wigtonshire. The town stands
at head of Loch Ryan, 68f miles by road,
but 73 by railway, west-south-west of
Dumfries ; ranks as a head port, a seat of
sheriff courts, and a royal and parliamen-
tary burgh ; unites with Wigton, Whit-
horn, and New Galloway in sending a
member to Parliament ; is a focus of con-
siderable trade and steamboat communica-
tion ; publishes a weekly newspaper ;
comprises all Stranraer parish, and parts
of Leswalt and Inch ; stands on broken
ground unfavourable to regularity or neat-
ness of arrangement ; contains, neverthe-
less, some elegant houses and many good
ones ; and has a head post office with all
departments, a railway station, 5 banking
offices, 3 hotels, a town hall, 2 Estab-
lished churches, 2 Free churches, 2
United Presbyterian churches, Original
Secession, Reformed Presbyterian, and
Roman Catholic churches, an athenaeum,
an academy, a Madras school, and a
primary public school. The harbour
works went by purchase in 1877 to the
Portpatrick Railway Company, and are
maintained partly by means of £500 a
year handed from that company to the
town council. The vessels belonging to
the port at end of 1879 were 21 sailing
vessels of aggregately 1319 tons, and 2
steam vessels of jointly 491 tons. The
vessels which entered in that year were
774 British of 121,748 tons, and 1 foreign
of 298 tons ; and those which cleared were
7S4 British of 122,470 tons, and 1 foreign
of 298 tons. Real property of the parlia-
mentary burgh in 1880-81, £21,079._ Pop.
6415. — -The rjarish is co-extensive with the
royal burgh, and comprises 55 acres.
Pop. 3455.
STRATH, parish, containing Broadford
and Kyleakin post office villages, in Skye
district, Inverness-shire. It comprehends
Scalpa, Pabba, and Longa islands, and
large part of south-east of Skye. Its
length is 26 miles ; its greatest breadth