Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 4

HUNTLY
with respective accommoJation for 319, 63, 43, 140,
3G2, and 78 children, had (1881) an average attendance
of 190, 54, 21,139, 261, and 54, and grants of £141, lis.,
£54, 10s., £33, 18s. 6d., £96, 10s., £174, 8s. 5d., and
£35, 14s. 7d. Valuation (1S60) £8061, (1882) £14,681,
10s. 5d. Pop. (1801) 2863, (1831) 3545, (1861) 4329,
(1871) 4374, (1881) 4388.— Ord. Sur., sh. 86, 1876.
Huntly, a burn in Melrose parish, Roxburghshire,
issuing from Cauldshiels Loch, and traversing the
grounds of Abbotsford to the river Tweed. It runs
through the Rhymer's Glen, named from True Thomas
of Ercildoun or Earlston, and famous as a loved retreat
of Sir Walter Scott. Huntlyburn House stands 1 mile
WSW of Melrose town.— Ord. Sur., sh. 25, 1865.
Huntly, Perthshire. See Castle-Htjntly.
Hurlet, a village on the SE border of Abbey parish,
Renfrewshire, on the left bank of Levern Water, 5 fur-
longs KW of Nitshill station, 1 J mile NNE of Barrhead,
and 3 miles SE of Paisley. Standing amid a rich mineral
field, where coal has been worked for upwards of three
centuries, and ironstone for close upon fifty years, it
was the seat from 1753 till 1820 of a copperas work, the
only one in Scotland up to 1807. Becoming also the
seat, tentatively in 1766-69 and effectively in 1797, of
the earliest alum work, it has ever since the latter date
continued to produce large quantities of alum, muriate
of potash, and sulphate of ammonia. It has a post
office under Glasgow. Pop. (1871) 379, (1881) 341.—
Ord. Sur., sh. 30, 1866.
Hurlford, a town in Riccarton parish, Ayrshire, on
the left bank of the river Irvine, with a station on the
Glasgow and South-Western railway, at the junction of
the Newniilns branch, 2 miles ESE of Kilmarnock,
under which it has a post office, with money order,
savings' bank, and telegraph departments. Connected
by a bridge with the suburb of Crookedholm: in Kil-
marnock parish, it is the seat of extensive ironworks of
the Eglinton Iron Co. (1S46), as also of a worsted
spinning-mill and of large fire-clay works, whilst in
the neighbourhood are many collieries. A quoad
sacra parish church, erected in 1S75 at a cost of £S000,
is an Early English edifice, with 800 sittings, a fine
organ, and a tower containing the largest bell in the
county. There are also a Free church, a Roman Catho-
lic chapel-school (1SS3), an Institute, with public hall
and reading-room, erected by private liberality, and
two public schools — Hurlford and Crookedholm. The
quoad sacra parish, constituted in 1874 with an endow-
ment of £3000, is in the presbytery of Irvine and synod
of Glasgow and Ayr. Pop. of town (1861) 2598, (1871)
3488, (1881) 4385, of whom 657 were in Crookedholm ;
of q. s. parish (1881) 4699, of whom 193 were in Galston
parish.— Ord. Sur., sh. 22, 1865.
Hutchison, a village of NW Lanarkshire, 1| mile from
Cambuslang.
Hutton, a Border village and parish of SE Berwick-
shire. The village stands J mile S of Whitadder Water,
4 J miles NNW of Velvethall station in Northumberland,
and 7 W of Berwick-upon-Tweed, under which it has a
post office. It is supposed to have been the camping-
place of the army of Edward I. in 1296, on the day
before the capture of Berwick.
The parish contains also the village of Paxton, and
comprehends the ancient parishes of Hutton and Fish-
wick, united in 1614. It is bounded N by Chimside
and Foulden, E by Mordington and the Liberties of
Berwick, SE and S by Northumberland, SW by Lady-
kirk, and W by Whitsome and Edrom. Its utmost
length, from E to W, is 4 miles ; its utmost breadth, from
N to S, is 3J miles ; and its area is 5645J acres, of which
129f are water. Whitadder Water winds 7 miles
along all the northern and most of the eastern boundary ;
and the Tweed sweeps 4 miles north-eastward along all
the Northumberland border, midway being spanned bj'
the Union Bridge, which, constructed in 1820 at a cost
of £7500 after designs by Captain Sir Samuel Brown,
R.N., is a suspension bridge for carriages, the first of
its kind in Britain. With a carriage-way 27 feet above
the surface of the stream, it measures 368 feet in length
65
HUTTON AND CORRIE
and 18 in width. Tho surface of the parish, for the
most part looking almost a dead level, declines along the
Tweed to 96 feet, and attains a summit altitude of 244
feet at a point 5 furlongs SW of Hutton village. The
ground adjacent to the Whitadder and the Tweed con-
trasts, in scenic character, with the prevailing tameness
of the interior, and, being well wooded, is charmingly
picturesque. Sandstone is a prevailing rock, and can be
found, at comparatively little depth from the surface, in
almost every part, whilst a stratum of gypsum occurs
on Hutton Hall estate. The soil on the lands along the
rivers is mostly a rich deep loam, incumbent upon sand-
stone ; but on part of the central lands is thin, wet,
and cold, overlying a strong tenacious clay. Some 65
acres are pastoral, about 260 are under wood, and all
the rest of the land is regularly in tillage. Andrew
Foreman, Archbishop of St Andrews from 1514 to
1522, was a native of Hutton ; the Rev. Philip Rid-
path, editor of the Border History (1776), was minister
of it ; and George Home of Wedderburn, one of the
Edinburgh literati towards the close of last century,
was long a resident. Hutton Hall, on the right bank
of Whitadder Water, 1| mile NW of Hutton village,
crowns the brink of an eminence, and comprises a
very ancient peel-tower, with a long mansion attached,
of patch-work structure and various dates. Its oldest
part, a remarkable specimen of a Border stronghold,
was the seat of one of the ' Seven Spears of Wedder-
burn ' mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in his Lay of
the Last Minstrel. The estate of Hutton Hall (630
acres, valued at £1588 per annum) was purchased in
1876 for £50,000 by Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks of
Guisachan, who in 18S1 was raised to the peerage as
Baron Tweedmouth. Mansions, noticed separately, are
Meadow House, Paxton House, Spital House, and
Tweedhill House ; and 7 proprietors hold each an
annual value of £500 and upwards, 1 of between £100
and £500, 3 of from £50 to £100, and 5 of from £20 to
£50. Hutton is in the presbytery of Chirnside and
synod of Merse and Teviotdale ; the living is worth
£355. The parish church is a modern Norman structure
of 1765, with a massive square tower and 700 sittings.
Hutton public, Paxton girls' and infants', and Paxton
schools, with respective accommodation for 80, 48, and
95 children, had (1SS1) an average attendance of 59, 28,
and 48, and grants of £52, 14s. 6d., £22, 10s., and £43,
13s. Valuation (1865) £10,627, (1882) £12,630, 13s.
Pop. (1801) 955, (1821) 1118, (1861) 1067, (1871) 1077,
(1881) 962.— Ord. Sur., shs. 26, 34, 1864.
Hutton and Corrie, an Annandale parish of Dumfries-
shire, containing, towards the NW, the post office of
Boreland, near the left bank of Dryfe Water, 5J miles
NE of Nethercleuch station, and 7 NNE of the post-
town Lockerbie. Bounded NE by Eskdalemuir, E by
Westerkirk, SE and S by Tundergarth, and W by
Dryfesdale, Applegarth, and Wamphray, it has an ut-
most length from N by W to S by E of 14 miles, an
utmost width from E to W of 6 miles, and an area of
23,991J acres, of which 68J are water. Dkyfe Water,
rising in the northern extremity of the parish at an
altitude of 1900 feet, winds llf miles southward, till it
passes off into Applegarth ; the Water of Milk, from a
point J mile below its source (770 feet), runs 8J miles
south-westward on or close to all the Tundergarth
border ; and Corrie Water, its affluent, rising near the
Eskdalemuir border at 800 feet, flows 7 miles south-
south-westward through the interior and along the
boundary with Applegarth and Dryfesdale. The sur-
face sinks to 370 feet above sea-level along the Milk,
and to 400 along the Dryfe, thence rising north-north-
eastward and northward to 827 feet at Pyatshaws Rig,
10S5 at *Hart Fell, 1021 at Peat Hill, 1259 at Macmaw
Hill, 1587 at *Laverhay Height, 1754 at *Jocks
Shoulder, and 2256 at *Loch Fell, where asterisks mark
those summits that culminate right on the confines of
the parish. The rocks are mainly Silurian. The NE
portion of the parish, lying generally high, affords good
runs for Cheviot sheep ; while on the lower portion,
which is mostly sound pasturage and meadow land,
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