Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 1

BRUIACH
shire, with a station on the Formartine and Buchan
section of the Great North of Scotland, If mile N of
Maud Junction. A public school here, with accommo-
dation for 106 children, had (1879) an average attend-
ance of 60, and a grant of £44, 3s. 4d. Brucklay Castle,
a little to the WSW, is a fine castellated mansion, 120
feet square, dating from the latter half of the 17th cen-
tury, and four times enlarged between 1765 and 1864.
It is the seat of Alex. Dingwall Fordyce (b. 1873), owner
of 20,899 acres in the shire valued at £12,744 per annum,
and son of the late We D. Fordyce, M.P. for Aberdeen-
shire (1866-68), for E Aberdeenshire (1868-75).
Bruiach, a loch in Kiltarlity parish, Inverness-shire,
8 miles SSW of Beauly. It measures 9 furlongs in
length by 3J in breadth, has a small island in its
middle, and abounds in trout and char.
Brunstane, a mansion in the E of Liberton parish,
Edinburghshire, 1 J mile SE of Portobello. It was built
in 1639 by Lord Lauderdale. Burdiehousb Burn is
sometimes called Brunstane Burn.
Brunstane, a ruined large strong fortalice in Penicuik
parish, Edinburghshire, on the left bank of the North
Esk, 1\ miles SW of Penicuik town. It is thought to
have been built about the year 1580, and is said to have
been inhabited by the predecessors of the Earl of Dum-
fries. Brunstane colliery is 5 furlongs to the SW.
Brunswark, Burnswark, or Birrenswark, an isolated
and conspicuous hill on the NE border of Hoddam parish,
Dumfriesshire, near the Caledonian railway, and 3J miles
SE of Lockerbie. It rises to an altitude of 920 feet above
sea-level ; has a tabular summit ; stands out against the
sky-line, in extensive prospects from the straths of the
Annan, Solway, and Eden ; commands a wide panoramic
view ; is crowned with two well-preserved Roman camps,
believed to have been formed in the time of Agrieola ;
and was a central station of the Romans, whence their
itinera diverged to all the southern parts of Scotland.
By Skene it is also identified with Trimontium (Welsh
Trefmynydd, ' town on the mountain '), a town of the
Selgovse mentioned by Ptolemy {Celt. Scot, vol. i., 1876,
p. 72).
Brunt, a hill in Dunbar parish, Haddingtonshire, 3
miles SSE of the town. Its summit is the highest
ground in the parish, rising 737 feet above sea-level.
Bruntaburn, a tract of land on the W border of West-
ruther parish, Berwickshire. Extensive plantations are
on it ; a flagstone quarry was formerly worked in it ; a
reach of Boondreigh burn bears its name ; and remains
of a Roman camp are on its northern border.
Bruntisland. See Burntisland.
Brunton, a hamlet in Criech parish, Fife, 6 miles ENE
of Newburgh. It has a post office under Cupar-Fife.
Brunton, in Markinch. See Barnslee.
Bruntsfield, a tract of links and a mansion in St
Cuthbert's parish, Edinburghshire. The links lie in
the immediate south-western vicinity of Edinburgh city,
adjoining the Meadows on the NE, the line of thorough-
fare from Edinburgh to Morningside on the WSW, and
the ornate villa-gemmed tract called Canaan on the S.
Part of the ancient extensive common of Borough Muir,
where James IV. mustered his army before the battle
of Flodden, they form now, and have long formed, a
capital golfing ground. The mansion stands a little S
of the links, and is the seat of Sir George Warrender,
sixteenth Bart, since 1715 (b. 1825 ; sue. 1867), owner
of 74 acres in the shire, valued at £908 per annum in
1872, a sum since greatly increased by the feuing of
Warrender Park. See Edinburgh.
Bruntwood, a quondam lake in Galston parish, Ayr-
shire. It was much frequented by waterfowl; but it
has been completely drained; and all its bed is now
under the plough.
Brurie Skerries, a group of islets in Nesting parish,
Shetland.
Bruxie, a hill on the mutual border of Arbuthnot
and Kinneff parishes, Kincardineshire. Its summit is
the highest ground in either parish, and has an altitude
of 710 feet above sea-level.
Brydekirk. See Bridekirk.
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BUCHAN
Buaehaille, Booshala, or Herdsman, an islet off the S
coast of Staffa, Argyllshire. It is separated from Staffa
by a channel about 30 yards wide, through which a
foamy surf is constantly rushing ; it has a conoidal or
irregularly pyramidal form ; it rests on a bed of curved
horizontal columns, visible only at low water ; it con-
sists of ranges of basaltic columns, small, closely-com-
pacted, and most of them so disposed as to look like
billets of wood piled against a central nucleus ; it rises
to an altitude of about 30 feet above sea-level ; and it
presents a general outline at once exact, symmetrical,
and curiously beautiful.
Buachaille-Etive (Gael, 'shepherds of Etive'), two
mountains in the NE of Ardchattan parish, Argyllshire.
Lying in the angle formed by Glen Etive and Glencoe,
they are parted by the river Coupal, to the W of which
Buaehaille Etive Bheag culminates in Stob Dubh (3129
feet above sea-level) ; and, to the E, Buaehaille Etive
Mor in Stob Dearg (3345). Dorothy Wordsworth tells
how from Kingshouse she and her brother ' often looked
out of the window towards a huge pyramidal mountain,
Buchal, at the entrance of Glencoe.'
Bualnaluib, a hamlet, with a public board school in
Gairloch parish, Ross-shire. The school, with accom-
modation for 140 children, had (1879) an average attend-
ance of 67, and a grant of £60, 15s. 6d.
Buccleuch, a cleuch in Ettrick parish, Selkirkshire,
in the lonely glen of the Rankle Burn, from 2J to 4
miles SSE of Tushielaw. It is flanked on the E by Kirk
Hill (1293 feet), on the W by Dunside Rig (1206) ; at its
head are some vestiges of a pre -Reformation church, at
its foot is the site of an ancient castle. From it was
named a former parish, now incorporated with Ettrick,
and it has given the titles of successively Laird, Baronet,
Baron, Earl, and Duke to the family of Scott. The title
of Baron Scott of Buccleuch was created in 1606, of Earl
of Buccleuch in 1619, of Duke of Buccleuch in 1663.
The Duke of Buccleuch is also Duke of Queensberry in
the peerage of Scotland, and Earl of Doncaster in that of
England ; he is fourth largest landowner in Scotland,
holding 432,183 acres, or nearly as much as the three
Lothians. His Scottish seats are Dalkeith Palace in
Edinburghshire, Drurnlanrig Castle and Langholm Lodge
in Dumfriesshire, Bowhill in Selkirkshire, and Branx-
holin in Roxburghshire. Both tradition and song as-
cribe the name of Buccleuch to the capture and killing
of a buck in a cleuch ; and they indicate both the spot
on which the buck was taken and that where it was
slain. Old Satchels says, in expressive doggerel, —
' Good Lancelot Scot, I think be true
Old Rankle Burn is designed Euckleuch now,
Yet in his book no falls read he, —
It was Buck's cleuch he read to me.
He told me the name, the place, the spot,
Came all by the hunting of a buck
In Scotland no Buckleuch was then,
Before the buck in the cleuch was slain.'
Buccleuch, Edinburghshire. See Edinburgh.
Buchaille. See Buachaille.
Buchan, a district of NE Aberdeenshire. It originally
extended from the Don to the Deveron ; it afterwards
was curtailed by detaching from it the district of For-
martine ; and it now extends from the Ythan to the
Deveron, or includes all the parts of Aberdeenshire N
and NNE of the Ythan ; but it is obscurely bounded,
over the few miles, in the NW, between the sources of
the Ythan and the course of the Deveron. Its outline
is almost circular, with a diameter of about 27J miles.
Its coast, particularly at what are called the Bullers of
Buchan, shows interesting features ; but its interior is
mainly low and monotonous, and nowhere has a higher
elevation than Mormond Hill, whose summit rises to an
altitude 769 feet above sea-level. The prevailing rock is
granite. The district is subdivided into Deer or Buchan
proper, comprising 13 parishes, and Ellon, comprising S
parishes. The chief towns are Peterhead and Fraser-
burgh ; and the chief villages are Ellon, Stewartfield,
Mintlaw, Longside, Old Deer, New Deer, Strichen, New
Pitsligo, Cuminestown, New Byth, Turriff, Crimond, St