Gazetteer of Scotland

ALG
ALL
stands on the Don, at terminus of branch
railway, 29J miles west - north - west of
Aberdeen ; is a scattered place, but a
centre of considerable business ; and has
a post office, with money order and tele-
graph departments, under Aberdeen, 2
banking offices, a hotel, Established, Free,
and Episcopalian churches, and a public
school. Pop. 529. — The parish is
7 miles long and 3 miles broad. Acres,
9102. Eeal property in 1880-81, £8198.
Pop. 1472. The surface is partly the
western portion of a vale 10 miles long,
including portions of 3 other parishes,
and partly an engirdling series of hills and
mountains. Less than half is under the
plough, and much of the rest is moss,
moor, and upland pasture. The mansions
are Haughton and Breda. There are
3 schools, with accommodation for 292
scholars. — The district comprehends also
the parishes of Auchindoir, Olatt, Glen-
bucket, Keig, Kildrummy, Kinnethmont,
Leochel, Ehynie, Strathdon, Tullynessle,
Tough, Towie, and the Aberdeenshire
part of Cabrach.
ALGUISH, place, 10 miles north-west of
Garve, in Eoss-shire.
ALLACHY, head-stream of the Tanner,
Aboyne parish, Aberdeenshire.
ALLAN, river of Perthshire and Stirling-
shire, entering the Forth 1| mile north-
west of Stirling.
ALLAN, stream, running to the Teviot
at 4 miles south-west of Hawick, Boxburgh-
shire.
ALLANBANK, hamlet on Whitadder
water, in Edrom parish, Berwickshire.
ALLAN (BRIDGE OF). See Bridge of
Allan.
ALLANDER, river of Dumbartonshire
and Stirlingshire, running to the Kelvin at
4^ miles west-south-west of Kirkintilloch.
"ALLANMOUTH, place, with remains of
Border peel, 4 miles south-west of Hawick,
E oxburghshire.
ALLANSHAW, farmhouse, formerly an
important seat in Hamilton parish,
Lanarkshire.
ALLANTON, village on the Whitadder,
1J mile south of Chirnside, Berwickshire.
It has a Free church.
ALLANTON, village in Hamilton parish,
Lanarkshire. Pop. 351.
ALLANTON, seat of Sir Henry J. S.
Steuart, Bart., 3J miles east-north-east
of Wishaw, Lanarkshire. It is mainly
modern, but includes an old castle.
ALLANTON, place, with public school,
in Galston parish, Ayrshire.
ALLANTON, burn, entering the Nith
near Auldgirth Bridge, Dumfriesshire.
ALLARDYCE, estate, with ruined ancient
mansion, in Arbuthnot parish, Kincardine-
shire.
ALLEAN, seat on lower part of the
Tummel, Perthshire.
ALLEN, stream, running 6 miles south-
ward to the Tweed, at If mile west-north-
west of Melrose, Roxburghshire. Its vale
is the Glendearg of Sir Walter Scott's
Monastery.
ALLERMUIR, a summit of the Pentland
Hills, 1617 feet high, 5 miles south -by-
west of Edinburgh.
ALLNESS. See Alness.
ALLOA, town and parish in Clackmannan-
shire. The town stands on the Forth, 7
miles east of Stirling ; has railway com-
munication towards the four points of the
compass, is a head port, a seat of manu-
facture, a police burgh, and the political
capital of Clackmannanshire ; dates from
ancient times, but has few marks of
antiquity, and few associations with
history ; shows well-built modern streets
and some elegant outskirts, and has a
head post office with all departments, a
junction railway station, a ferry nexus
with South Alloa railway station, 4
banking offices, 4 hotels, a county court-
house of 1865, an archaeological hall
of 1874, a steepled Established church of
1819, 2 Free churches, 2 United Pres-
byterian churches, a Baptist church of
1881, an Episcopalian church, a Sweden-
borgian church, a burgh school of 1876, a
beautiful small academy, and a new dock,
formed in 1879-81. Its shipping in 1879
comprised 776 British vessels, of 95,900
tons, and 291 foreign vessels, of 46,281
tons, inwards ; and 755 British vessels, of
93,260 tons, and 298 foreign vessels, of
51,866 tons, outwards. Alloa Tower, on
its east side, was the seat of the Earls of
Mar, dated from the 13th century, was
burnt in 1800, and is now a thick-walled
shell, 89 feet high. Alloa Park House,
eastward of the tower, is the seat of the
Earl of Mar and Kellie, an ornate hollow
quadrangle, 185 feet by 120. Pop. of
the police burgh, 8812 ; of the town,
including New Sauchie suburb, 10,591. —
The parish excludes New Sauchie, but in-
cludes Tullibody village and 2 islands, and
is averagely 4 miles long. Acres, 5499.
Eeal property in 1880-81, £55,330. Pop.
11,638. The part adjacent to the Forth is
rich carse, and the rest is a fertile diversi-
fied assemblage of vales, rising grounds,
and small hills. There are 10 schools
for 2022 scholars, and one of them and a
class-room for 450 are new.
ALLOA (SOUTH), place, with dock and
railway station, on right bank of the Forth,
opposite Alloa. The dock was projected
in 1875 by a company with large capital.
ALLOWAY, quoad sacra parish, with
church, 2| miles south of Ayr. It is in-
tersected by the river Doon ; and it com-
prises, on the right side, an old parish of
Alloway, which became annexed to Ayr ;
on the left side, part of the parish of May-
bole. Pop. of the Ayr part, 486 ; of the
Maybole part, 421. The new church was
erected in 1858. The old church, which
served for the old civil parish, stands in
the near vicinity of the new, is a small,
plain, roofless ruin, and has much celebrity
j as the scene of the fiend revelry in Burns'