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AUCHENGOOL, estate in Eerrick parish,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
AUCHENGRAY, place, 5| miles north of
Carstairs Junction, Lanarkshire. It has
a post office under Lanark, and a railwaj 7
station.
AUCHENHEATH, village, 9J miles south
of Larkhall, Lanarkshire. It has a railway-
station, and a public school with about
152 scholars. Pop. 612.
AUCHENLOCH, small village in Cadder
parish, Lanarkshire.
AUCHENREOCH, seat in Strickathrow
parish, Forfarshire.
AUCHENREOCH, lake in Urr parish,
Kirkcudbrightshire.
AUCHENROATH, seat near Rothes
village, Elginshire.
AUCHENSAUGH, hill, 2\ miles south of
Douglas, Lanarkshire. It was the scene
of a notable swearing of Solemn League
and Covenant by a body of Cameronians.
AUCHENTORLIE, seat, near Paisley,
Renfrewshire.
AUCHENTORLIE, seat and vestiges of
ancient hill-fort, in Old Kilpatrick parish,
Dumbartonshire.
AUCHERNACH, seat in Strathdon
parish, Aberdeenshire.
AUCHINBLAE. See AuCHENBLAE.
AUCHINCASS, ruined ancient castle on
Evan river, near Beattock, Dumfries-
shire.
AUCHINCHEW, cliff-walled amphi-
theatre, vale, and cascades, on south coast
of Arran Island, Buteshire.
AUCHINCLOACH, burn, and lands with
traditions of the battle of 1645, in Kilsyth
parish, Stirlingshire.
AUCHINCLOICH, hamlet in Ochiltree
parish, Ayrshire. It has a post office
under Kilmarnock.
AUCHINCRAW, village, 3 miles north-
north-west of Chirnside, Berwickshire.
It has a post office under Ayton.
AUCHINDACHY, railway station, 3\
miles south-west of Keith, Banffshire.
AUCHINDINNY, village on the North
Esk, with railway station, 8 miles by road,
but 12 by railway, south of Edinburgh.
Pop. 405.
AUCHINDOIR, parish, averagely 7 miles
north-west of Alford, Aberdeenshire. It
contains Lumsden village, with post office
under Aberdeen, and it measures about 7
miles in both length and breadth. Acres,
15,310. Eeal property in 1880-81, £6405.
Pop. 1514. The surface includes part of
Buck of Cabrach Mountain ; comprises
hill-ridges of very various height, and
intervening vales of very various width ;
and is traversed by Bogie river. The seats
are Clova, Craig, and Druminnor; and
the chief antiquity is the ruin of an
ancient church with Saxon doorway. The
churches are Established, 2 Free, United
Presbyterian, and Episcopalian, and there
are 2 public schools for 200 scholars.
AUCHINDUNE, ruined old castle in
Mortlach parish, Banffshire.
AUCHINFLOWER, place, with public
school, in Ballantrae parish, Ayrshire.
AUCHINGRAMONT, suburb of Hamil-
ton, Lanarkshire. It has a United Presby-
terian church.
AUCHINHALRIG, village in Bellie parish,
Banffshire.
AUCHINLECK — vulgarly AFFLECK,—
town and parish in east of Kyle district,
Ayrshire. The town stands on Lugar
water, 13f miles south-south-east of Kil-
marnock, and has a post office, with money
order department, under Cumnock ; a rail-
way station, a parochial church, a United
Original Secession church, and a public
school with about 303 scholars. Pop. 1528.
— The parish contains also the villages of
Common - Dyke, Cronberry, and Dern-
conner, most of the town of Lugar, and
small part of the town of Cumnock. Its
length is 16 miles, its mean breadth not
more than 2. Acres, 24,129. Real
property in 1880-81, £31,330. Pop. 6681.
The eastern section is hilly and wild, and
includes some lofty summits ; the western
section, low, fertile, and embellished ; and
the middle section is of medium character.
About one-third of the entire area is in
tillage. Auchinleck House, 3 miles west
of the town, was erected by the judge
Lord Auchinleck, father of the biographer
of Dr. Johnson. A ruined baronial
fortalice, the residence of the early Bos-
wells from the time of James IV., stands
in that mansion's neighbourhood, and
remains of another old fortalice are in the
eastern district. There are 6 schools for
1248 scholars, and 1 of them and an
enlargement for 250 are new.
AUCHINLECK, lofty hill, 4 miles west of
Queensberry, Dumfriesshire.
AUCHINLILLY, cascade on the Carron,
west of Denny, Stirlingshire.
AUCHINLOCHAN, village in Kilfinan
parish, Argyleshire. Pop. 340.
AUCHINMULLY, village in east side of
Kilsyth parish, Stirlingshire.
AUCHINRAITH, village in Blantyre
parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 687.
AUCHINSTARRY, seat in Kilsyth
parish, Stirlingshire.
AUCHINSTARRY, village in Cumber-
nauld parish, Dumbartonshire. Pop. 626.
AUCHINTIBBER, village in Blantyre
parish, Lanarkshire. Pop. 435.
AUCHINTOUL, seat in Marnock parish,
Banffshire.
AUCHIRIES, hamlet in Cruden parish,
Aberdeenshire. It has a public school
with about 167 scholars.
AUCHLEE, estate, with two well-pre-
served ancient Caledonian stone circles, in
Banchory -De venick parish, Kincardine-
shire.
AUCHLEEKS, hamlet and seat in Blair-
Athole parish, Perthshire. The hamlet
has a post office under Blair- Athole.
AUCHLEVEN, village in Premnay
parish, Aberdeenshire. It has a post
office under Insch.