Gazetteer of Scotland

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ARB
stands on north side of Loch-na-Gaul,
near the sea, about 30 miles south of
Kyleakin ; is regularly called at by
steamers, and has a post office, with money
order department, under Fort-William, a
large inn, an Established mission church,
a Free church preaching-station, a Roman
Catholic church with 600 sittings, and a
Roman Catholic school. The district is
bounded on the north by Loch Morar, on
the south by Loch Aylort, and is mostly
mountainous and sterile.
ARAY, rivulet, running 9 miles south-
ward to Loch Fyne, in vicinity of Inverary,
Argyleshire. It traverses a romantic
glen, and makes 2 fine cascades.
ARBEADIE, village in Banchory-Ternan
parish, Kincardineshire. Pop. 302.
ARBIGLAND, seat in Kirkbean parish,
Kirkcu dbrightshire.
ARBIRLOT, village and parish on east
coast of Forfarshire. The village stands
on Elliot rivulet, 3 miles west-south-west
of Arbroath, and has a post office under
Arbroath. The parish contains also Bon-
nington village, and is about 4 miles long.
Acres, 6747. Real property in 1880-81,
£13,224. Pop. 822. The coast is flat
and sandy, and the interior undulates or
gradually rises,but is nowhere hilly. Kelly
Castle is a chief feature. The churches
are Established and Free, and the public
school is a new building, for 135 scholars.
ARBORY, conical hill, adjacent to the
Clyde, in Lamington parish, Lanarkshire.
It rises about 500 feet above the Clyde's
level, and has extensive rude antiquities,
apparently of the Caledonian times.
ARBROATH, town and parish on east
coast of Forfarshire. The town stands at
a junction of railways, opposite Bell Rock
lighthouse, 16J miles east-north-east of
Dundee ; is a royal and parliamentary
burgh, a head port, and a seat of manu-
facture ; made a great figure throughout
the Middle Ages in connection with a
grand abbey, but has figured little in civil
history, and is the ' Fairport ' of Sir
Walter Scott's Antiquary. It has a head
post office with all departments, 5
banking offices, 3 hotels, a town hall,
public reading-rooms, a public library, a
museum, public baths, an infirmary, 5
Established churches, 5 Free churches,
3 United Presbyterian churches, and
Original Secession, Congregational, Evan-
gelical Union, Baptist, Wesley an, and
Roman Catholic churches, and a number
of public schools and other institutions.
It contains some well-built streets and
handsome public buildings, and has under-
gone much recent improvement, yet shows
less attractiveness than many other British
towns of its size. Its abbey, though now
a fragmentary ruin, is still its most strik-
ing feature, was founded in 1178 by
William the Lion, stood within a wall-
engirt area of 1150- by 706 feet, had a
cruciform church measuring 270 feet from
east to west and 132 feet from north to
south, and now exhibits in its ruins
beautiful blendings of Norman and early
pointed architecture. The town hall is a
neat edifice of 1806. The market-place
was erected in 1856, at a cost of about
£5000. The public baths were projected
in September 1880. The burgh church in
the Romish times disappeared after the
Reformation, and remains of it were
found hi the course of improving the har-
bour in 1877. The present burgh church
was erected in 1791, acquired an elegant
steeple in 1830, and contains 1690 sittings.
St. Margaret's Established Church was
erected in 1879, at a cost of about £6000,
and contains 1000 sittings. Several of
the other churches are recent and good.
15 schools, for 3421 scholars, are in the
burgh, and 3 of them, for 1660, are
new. A public park adjacent to the north-
eastern boundary was projected in 1876.
The harbour is artificial, and a dock on it
was completed in September 1877, cost
nearly £40,000, and has an area of
1\ acres, a quayage of 1313 feet, and a
depth of Yl\ feet at ordinary spring tides.
The shipping in 1879 comprised 281 British
vessels, of 27,409 tons, and 35 foreign
vessels, of 5404 tons, inwards ; and 274
British vessels, of 25,836 tons, and 32
foreign vessels, of 4928 tons, outwards.
The parliamentary burgh unites with
Montrose, Forfar, Brechin, and Bervie in
sending a member to Parliament. Real
property in 1880-81, exclusive of railways,
£79,185. Pop. of parliamentary burgh,
21,758. — The parish includes less than
half of the town, the rest of which is in
St. Vigeans. Acres, 943. Real property
of landward par t in 1880-81, £1420. Pop. ,
quoad civilia, 9466; quoad sacra, 4706. The
parts of it and of St. Vigeans outside the
burgh are under one board, and have
school accommodation for 427 scholars.
ARBROATH AND DUNDEE RAILWAY.
See Dundee and Arbroath Railway.
ARBROATH AND FORFAR RAILWAY,
railway from Arbroath harbour north-
westward and west -north -westward to
Guthrie Junction, and westward thence to
Forfar. It is 15i miles long, and rises 220
feet ; it was completed in 1839, at a cost of
£131,644 ; it became amalgamated with the
Aberdeen Railway, and through that with
the Caledonian, and the dividend for it
was arranged in 1876 to stand at 6 per
cent, till 1879, and become permanently
5J in 1880.
ARBROATH AND MONTROSE RAIL-
WAY, railway from junction with the
North British system at Arbroath north-
ward along the coast to Montrose. It was
undertaken in 1871, was, with some local
exception, not commenced till early part
of 1879, was partially opened for goods
traffic in October 1880, and cost, till near
that time, £219,398. It goes almost due
north to Lunan Bay, proceeds thence on
the coast all the way to Ferryden, circles
thence across the South Esk to back of