Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 1

BONITOWN
former of £215, 16s. and £295, 9s. 6d., for the latter of
£18, 17s. and £34, 17s. Valuation (1865) £28,741 ;
(1881) £42,362, 16s., including 2£ miles of the Dum-
bartonshire and 2 of the Forth and Clyde Junction
sections of the North British. Pop. (1801) 2460, (1831)
3874, (1841) 6682, (1851) 7643, (1861) 8866, (1871)
9408, (1881) 12,581.— Ord. Sur., sh. 30, 1866.
Bonitown. See Bonnington.
Bonjedward, a village in Jedburgh parish, Roxburgh-
shire, f mile above the influx of the Jed to the Teviot,
and 2 miles N of Jedburgh. It occupies the site of a
Roman station, and was long a place of some note and
strength. Bonjedward House, hard by, was the dower
house of the Dowager Marchioness of Lothian (d. 1877).
Bonkle, a village in Cambusnethan parish, Lanark-
shire, in a picturesque situation on the Allanton estate, 3
miles ENS of Wishaw. A U. P. church here was built
in 1S18, and contains 560 sittings.
Bonnet Hill. See Dundee.
Bonnington, a suburb on the mutual border of St
Cuthbert's and North Leith parishes, Edinburghshire,
on the Water of Leith, and on the Edinburgh and Leith
branch of the North British railway, in the south-western
vicinity of Leith. It comprises numerous neat villas
and good lofty houses ; presents an appearance in keep-
ing with the best part of Leith ; and has a station on
the railway, a TJ.P. church hall, a girls' public school,
and a mineral spring. The U. P. hall, a Gothic edifice,
was erected in 1875 at a cost of about £1200, contains
250 sittings, and was to be followed by the erection of
a contiguous church.
Bonnington, a hamlet in Ratho parish, Edinburgh-
shire, 1J mile SW of Ratho village. — Bonnington House,
in the south-western vicinity of the hamlet, is a mansion
of 1622. Bonnington estate, around the mansion and
the hamlet, belonged anciently to Robert de Erskine ; in
the middle of the 17th century, to Lord Collington ; in
subsequent times, to successively the Durhams, the Cun-
ninghams, and the Wilkies.
Bonnington. See Arbirlot.
Bonnington, an estate, with a mansion and a famous
waterfall, in the SW of Lanark parish, Lanarkshire.
The estate belonged to the Baillies of Lamington, heirs
of Sir William Wallace ; passed by marriage to the Car-
michaels (c. 1590), to Robert Dundas of Arniston (c.
1757), and to Admiral Sir John Lockhart-Ross (1721-90) ;
and now belongs to Sir Charles W. F. A. Ross, Bart. , of
Balnagowan, Ross-shire, who owns in Lanarkshire
1421 acres, valued at £1511 per annum. The mansion
on it stands near the Clyde, within J mile of Corra Linn ;
superseded an old mansion of the Baillies ; was built by
Sir John L. Ross, after designs by Gillespie Graham ; and
contains a portrait of Sir William Wallace, a rude old
chair called Wallace's, and a small ancient cup, girt with
a silver hoop, and known as ' Wallace's quaigh,' — all
brought, long years ago, from Lamington Castle. The
grounds around the mansion are naturally beautiful,
and highly improved by art ; they are open to tourists,
and include the path leading to the fall. This, Bonning-
ton Linn, is the uppermost of the three famous falls of
the Clyde ; occurs about a mile above the mansion, and
2J miles S of Lanark ; is a sheer leap of the whole river
over a precipice of 30 feet ; and has a projecting break
in the middle of the breadth, which splits the descend-
ing mass of waters, and gives a twofold power to their
scenic effect. The fall becomes an abyss, the abyss a
river-torrent ; and the river-torrent careers for about
\ mile along a dark wild chasm, with mural faces 70 to
100 feet high. The scenery is most imposing and pic-
turesque ; and, in its most striking part, is well beheld
from a light iron bridge bestriding the river near the fall.
See pp. 33-39 of Dorothv Wordsworth's Tour in Scotland
(ed. by Princ. Shairp, 1874).
Bonnington, Ayrshire. See Bonnyton.
Bonny, a rivulet of Dumbarton and Stirling shires.
It rises in the SE of Cumbernauld parish, and runs about
7 miles north-eastward, partly along the boundary be-
tween Denny and Falkirk parishes, to the river Carron,
a little below Dunipace church.
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BOONDREIGH
Bonnybank, a hamlet in the NE of Kennoway parish,
i Fife, 1 mile NNE of Kennoway village.
Bonnybridge, a village partly in Denny but mostly in
| Falkirk parish, Stirlingshire, on Bonny Water and the
Forth and Clyde Canal, § mile N of the Edinburgh and
J Glasgow section of the North British railway, and 4
miles W of Falkirk. It has a station on the railway,
a post office, with money order and savings'' bank de-
partments, a literary hall, a paper-mill, a saw-mill, 2
iron-foundries, and a public school, which, with accom-
modation for 300 children, had (1879) an average attend-
ance of 267, and a grant of £254, 14s. 6d. Pop. (1871)
731,
Bonnymuir, a bleak, moorish rising ground in Falkirk
parish, Stirlingshire, adjacent to the S side of the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow railway, and 1 mile SSE of Bonny-
bridge. A skirmish took place here on 25 April 1820,
between 30 pike-armed Radical weavers from Glasgow
and a detachment of hussars and yeomanry. The affair
has been called the Battle of Bonnymuir ; but was of
consequence only as terminating a period of intense poli-
tical excitement in the W of Scotland. Nineteen of the
Radical skirmishers were taken prisoners, and lodged in
Stirling Castle ; and, after being brought to trial, two of
them were executed, the rest transported. See chap,
xiv. of Nimmo's Stirlingshire (3d ed. 1880).
Bonnyrigg, a village on the NW border of Cockpen
parish, Edinburghshire, near the Edinburgh and Peebles
railway, § mile SSE of Lasswade, and 2 miles SW of
Dalkeith. Only a collier village when the Queen drove
through it (14 Sept. 1842), it now presents the aspect of
a cleanly, pleasant, well-built little town, a summer
resort of families from Edinburgh. It is governed by a
body of commissioners under the general police and im-
provement act of 1862 ; and it has a post office, with
money order and savings' bank departments, a railway
station, a public park (1869) of 5J acres, a bowling-green
(1871), public waterworks (1871), a handsome Free
church, a public hall, and a girls' school. Pop. (1861)
898, (1871) 1510, (1SS1) 2060.
Bonnyton, a suburb of Kilmarnock, in Kilmarnock
parish, Ayrshire. Pop. (1861) 630, (1871) 746, (1881)
866.
Bonnyton. See Bonnington.
Bonnytoun, a mansion 1J mile NE of Linlithgow, the
seat of Adam Dawson, Esq. (b. 1829 ; sue. 1873), owner
of 409 acres in the shire, valued at £798 per annum.
Bonshaw Tower, an old mansion in the extreme NE
of Annan parish, Dumfriesshire, on the right bank of
Kirtle Water, 3J miles ESE of Ecclefechan. It is the
seat of Rt. Nasmyth Irving, Esq. (b. 1827 ; sue. 1870),
owner of 1435 acres in the shire, valued at £1326 per
annum. A marshy tract, called Bonshaw Flow, extends
to the SW.
Bony Brae, a place near Wooden in Kelso parish, Rox-
burghshire. It took its name from the upturning by
the plough of quantities of human bones ; and is sup-
posed to have been the scene of some unrecorded battle
between the Scots and either the English or the Danes.
Bonytown, an estate, with a quondam ancient castle,
in Maryton parish, Forfarshire. The estate belonged to
the family of Wood, and now is part of the estate of
Old Montrose. The castle, the Woods' residence, is re-
presented by only vestiges of a moat.
Boon, a hill and a farm in Legerwood parish, Berwick-
shire. The hill culminates 3 miles ESE of Lauder ; has
a round massive outline ; is an offshoot or south-western
abutment of the Lammermuir range ; and has an altitude
of 1070 feet above sea-level. The farm extends south-
south-westward from the hill ; and has what is thought
to have been an ancient market cross, a shaft of sand-
stone sunk into a square block of the same material.
Boondreigh, a rivulet of W Berwickshire. It rises
among the Lammermuirs, near the south-western bound-
ary of Cranshaws parish ; runs about 7 miles south-west-
ward, chiefly along the boundary between Lauder parish
on the right and Westruther and Legerwood parishes on
the left ; and falls into the Leader, 2 miles SE of Lauder
town.