Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 3

GEANPHOLM
a great culminating group around the meeting-points of
Perth, Aberdeen, Banti', and Inverness shires, forms the
eastern and grandest part of what are called the Central
Gramcians, and bears the distinctive name of the
Cairngokm Mountains. See G. F. Robson's Scenery of
the Grampian Mountains (1814).
Grandholm, a village, with woollen works, in Old
Machar parish, Aberdeenshire, on the left bank of the
Don, opposite Woodsido, and 2 miles NNW of Aber-
deen. Grandholm Cottage, long the residence of James
Hadden, Esq. , the principal proprietor of the mills, and
provost of Aberdeen, stood on the brow of a rising
ground commanding an extensive view of the Don's
valley, and about 1849 was replaced by a handsome
edifice. Grandholm House, an older mansion, stands
higher up the Don, 2 miles N of Auchmill, and is the
seat of AVilliam Roger Paton, Esq. (b. 1857 ; sue.
1879), who holds 1745 acres in the shire, valued at
£2050 per annum.— Oc(^. Siir., sh. 77, 1873.
Grandiscole, a village in Bressay parish, Shetland,
distant li mile from Lerwick.
GrandtuUy Castle. See Grantully.
Grange. See Edinburgh.
Grange, a parish in the Strathisla district of Banff-
shire, containing, towards its southern extremity. Grange
Junction on the Great North of Scotland railway, 4i
miles E by S of the post-town Keith, 16J SW of Banff,
35 SW of Knock (another station in Grange), 8^ NNW
of Huntly, and 48| NW of Aberdeen. It is bounded N
by Deskford, NE by Fordyce and Ordiquhill, E by
Marnoch, SE by P>othiemay, S by Cairnie in Aberdeen-
shire, and SW and W by Keith. Its utmost length,
from E to W, is 6 miles ; its utmost breadth, from N to
S, is 5J miles ; and its area is 6348f acres, of which
52 are water. The river Isla winds 7 furlongs east-
ward along the Keith border, then 3J miles east-south-
eastward through the southern interior, on its way to
the Deveron ; and to the Isla run Altmore Burn SJ
miles southward along all the western border, Shiel
Burn 4J- miles south-westward along all the boundary
with Rothiemay, and two lesser burns that drain the in-
terior. Tire surface is somewhat hilly, sinking to 295 feet
above sea-level at the Shiel's influx to the Isla, and rising
thence to 913 and 1199 feet at *Little and *Meikle
Balloch, 810 at Sillyearn Hill, 537 near Crannach, 1409
at "Knock HiU, 1028 at *Lurg Hill, and 860 at *Black
Hill, where asterisks mark those summits that culminate
on or close to the confines of the parish. The rocks are
mainly Silurian ; and limestone has been largely quarried;
whilst plumbago — a comparatively rare mineral — occurs
at Seggiecrook. Much of the arable soil is excellent ;
but much, again, rests upon such stubborn subsoil as to
resist all efforts at improvement. Most or all of the
land was anciently covered with forest ; and there is
now a largish extent of peat-moss, embedding roots and
trunks of primeval trees. Grange Castle, once the
residence of a section of the Kinloss community, under
a sub-prior, who here had a large farm or grange that
gave the parish its name, stood on the rising ground
now occupied by the parish church, and overlooked
extensive haughs along the course of the Isla. A
stately edifice, surrounded by a narrow moat, it left,
till a comparatively recent period, considerable remains.
The Gallow or Green Hill was the place of capital execu-
tion by sentence of the Abbots of Kinloss, and figures
dismally in local tradition. Remains of several trenches
or encampments, supposed to have been formed by either
the ancient Caledonians or the Picts, are on the haughs
of the Isla ; and scenes of ancient battles are pointed out
by dim tradition on the N side of Gallow Hill, on the S
side of Knock Hill, and at Auchincove near the Isla.
Edingight is the chief mansion ; and the Earl of Fife
shares most of the parish with Sir John Innes and the
Earl of Seafield. Grange is in the presbytery of Strath-
bogie and synod of Moray ; the living is worth £374.
The parish church, IJ mile WNW of Grange Junction,
was built in 1795, and contains 616 sittings. There are
also Free and U. P. churches ; and three public schools
— Crossroads, Grange, and SiUyearn — with respective
GEANGEMOUTH
accommodation for 120, 113, and 120 children, had
(1881) an average attendance of 82, 68, and 64, and
grants of £74, 16s., £63, 14s., and £51, 93. Valuation
(1843) £5299, (1881) £7470. Pop. (1801) 1529, (1831)
1492, (1861) 1909, (1871) 1876, (1881) llU.—Ord. Sur.,
sh. 86, 1876. See the Rev. Dr J. F. S. Gordon's Book
oftJie Chronicles of Keith, Grange, etc. (Glasg. 1880).
Grange, a hamlet in St Andrews parish, Fife, 1 mile
SSE of St Andrews city.
Grange. See Penkinghame.
Grange, an estate in Burntisland parish, Fife, 1 mile
N of the town. It belonged to Sir WUliam Kirkaldy,
commonly called Kirkaldy of Grange, who in 1573 was
hanged at Edinburgh in the cause of Queen Mary ; and it
now is annexed to the estate of Raith. An extensive
distillery is on it ; and excellent sandstone has been
largely quarried. — Ord. Sur., sh. 40, 1867.
Grange, an estate, with a modern mansion (now a
farmhouse), in Monifieth parish, SE Forfarshire, 2^ miles
NE of Broughty Ferry. An ancient mansion, on the
same site as the present one, was the seat of Durham of
Grange, an influential agent in the work of the Refor-
mation, and a near kinsman of Erskine of Dun, who
often visited him, and here is said to have narrowly
escaped being taken prisoner by his enemies. In 1650
the great Marquis of Montrose, on his way from Assynt
to be tried at Edinburgh, lay a night at Grange ; and
the laird's lady made a futQe attempt to smuggle him
out, disguised as a woman, past the drunken sentinels.
—Ord. Sur., sh. 49, 1865.
Grange. See St Vigeans.
Grange or Westquarter Burn, a rivulet of Falkirk
and Polmont parishes, SE Stirlingshii-e. Rising near
Barleyside at an altitude of 580 feet, it first runs 4
miles east-north-eastward through Falkirk pari.sh to a
point 5 furlongs S by E of Callendar House, and then
winds 4J miles north-eastward and northward along the
boundary between Falkirk and Polmont, till it falls
into the Carron at Grangemouth. — Ord. Sur., sh. 31,
1867.
Grange Beil. See Eeil-Grange.
Grange, East. See Culross.
Grange Fell, a hill in the E of Tundergarth parish,
Dumfriesshire, rising 1045 feet above sea-level.
Grange Hall, a modern mansion in Kinloss parish,
NW Elginshire, 2J miles NE of Forres. A fine four-
storied freestone edifice, it is the seat of James Grant-
Peterkin, Esq. (b. 1837 ; sue. 1878), who holds 1148
acres in the shire, valued at £1676 per annum. — Ord.
Sur., sh. 95, 1876.
Grange House, an old mansion in Carriden parish,
Linlithgowshire, IJ mile E of Borrowstouuness. It is
the seat of Henry Cadell, Esq. (b. 1812 ; sue. 1858),
who holds 534 acres in Linlithgowshire and 1129 in
Stirlingshire, valued at £3727 and £1373 per annum. —
Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857.
Grange House, a mansion in Maybole parish, Ayrshire,
3i miles NNE of the town.
Grangemouth, a seaport and post-town in the parishes
of Falkirk, Bothkennar, and Polmont, SE Stirlingshire.
Built about the entrance of the Forth and Clyde
Canal, where the Grange Bm'n falls into the river
Carron, it is 7 furlongs above the confluence of the latter
stream and the Forth, and 3 miles ENE of Falkirk,
with which and Larbert it is connected by branch lines
of the North British and the Caledonian. The town
was founded in 1777 by Sir Lawrence Dundas, in con-
nection with the formation of the canal, which was
opened in 1790 ; and it soon became a place of some
importance through the canal traffic, the neighbourhood
of the Carron Iron-works, and the convenience of the
situation. All the trade of Stirlingshire speedily found
its way to the new port, and its trade was benefited by
the high shore-dues levied at Leith. Till 1810, Grange-
mouth was a creek of Bo'ness, but, in that year, it was
recognised as a head port by the custom house. In 1836
permission was obtained from parliament by the coim-
cillors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, to construct
a dock ; and this, now known as the old dock, was
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