Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 5

LOCKEEBIE HOUSE
on it, and who, in some good years, pays £30 to the
proprietor for a single day's collection. The lamb fair
of Lockerbie is the largest in Scotland, no fewer than
from 30,000 to 50,000 lambs being usually on the
ground ; and the day for it is late in the season, being
the 13th of August, old style, unless that be a Saturday,
a Sunday, or a Monday, and in that case the Tuesday
following. Thursday is market-day ; and fourteen other
fairs — for pork, cattle, and sheep, or hiring — are held
in the course of the year — on the second Thursdays of
Jan., Feb., March, April, May, and Nov., on the third
Thursdays of June, July, and Oct., and on the Thurs-
day before Christmas (all ten according to old style), on
the Thursdays before 19 April and 30 Sept., and on the
Thursdays after the October Falkirk Tryst and the first
November Doune Tryst. Lockerbie has a new post
office (1883), with money order, savings' bank, insur-
ance, and telegraph departments, branches of the Bank
of Scotland and the Clydesdale, Commercial, and Koyal
Banks, a local savings' bank (1824), 19 insurance
agencies, 2 hotels, a gas company (1855), a drill-hall,
and a Thursday Liberal paper — the Annandale Herald
and Moffat Neios (1862). Nearly £1000 has been ex-
pended by the police commissioners on the erection of
water-works at the head of Bridge Street ; but the water
supply, as also the drainage, is still very defective. A
project started in 1873 to build a market-house from
designs by the late David Bryce, R.S.A., has resulted
only in the purchase of a site and the depositing in a
bank of £900 subscribed. A mechanics' institute,
originating in a bequest of Mr George Easton of Chester,
was erected in 1866 at a cost of £1050. Scottish
Baronial in style, it comprises a reading-room and a
lecture-hall, with accommodation for more than 800
persons. The minister of the parish, the U. P. minister,
and the Provost of Dumfries are its trustees. Dryfes-
dale public school is a handsome and commodious
Gothic edifice, built in 1875 at a cost of £4500,
exclusive of site, and having accommodation for 600
children. Dryfesdale parish church was built in 1757,
and contains 750 sittings ; the session-house and the
ti-ont wall of the churchyard were rebuilt in 1883 at a
cost of £350. There are also a conspicuous Free church
(1872) and an Early English U.P. church, rebuilt in
1874-75 at a cost of £2600, with 500 sittings and a
spire 135 feet high. The municipal voters numbered
445 in 1884, when the annual value of real property
amounted to £6500, whilst the revenue, including
assessments, is £325. Pop. (1831) 1414, (1851) 1569,
(1861) 1709, (1871) 1960, (1881) 2029, of whom 1046
were females. Houses (1881) 414 inhabited, 25 vacant,
13 building.— Ord. Sur., sh. 10, 1864.
A Free Church presbytery of Lockerbie, in the synod
of Dumfries, comprises the churches of Annan, Canon-
bie, Ecclefechan, Eskdalemuir, Halfmorton, Johnstone,
Kirkmichael, Eirkpatrick- Fleming, Langholm, Loch-
maben, Lockerbie, and Moffat, which 12 churches to-
gether had 2138 members in 1883.
Lockerbie House, a mansion in Dryfesdale parish,
Dumfriesshire, IJ mile N by E of Lockerbie town. Its
owner, Arthur Henry Johnstone-Douglas, Esq. (b. 1846;
sue. 1866), holds 2336 acres in the shire, valued at
£3345 per annum.— Ori^. Sur., sh. 10, 1864.
Logan, an estate, with a Scottish Baronial mansion,
enlarged (1872) from designs by David Bryce, E.S.A.,
in Kirkmaiden parish, SW Wigtownshire, 2:^ miles SSE
of Ardwell. Its owner, James M'Douall, Esq. (b. 1840 ;
sue. 1872), holds 16,290 acres in the shire, valued at
£14,786 per annum, his ancestors having possessed the
estate from time immemorial. See Port Logan. — Ord.
Sur., sh. 1, 1856.
Logan or Glencorse Burn, a rivulet of Penicuik and
Glencorse parishes, Edinburghshire, rising 1400 feet
above sea-level, among the Pentland Hills, at a point
44 miles W by N of Penicuik town, and running 7|
miles north-eastward and east-south-eastward, till, after
a total descent of SOO feet, it falls into the North Esk
in the vicinity of Auchendinny. See Glencorse. — Ord.
Swr., sh. 32, 1857.
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LOGIE
Loganbank, a mansion in Glencorse parish, Edin-
burghshire, near the right bank of Glencorse Burn, 1^.
mile N by W of Auchendinny station. Gradually
enlarged under the superintendence of David Bryce,
E.S.A., it at first was a small thatched house, built-
in 1810 by the Eev. John Inglis, D.D. (1763-1834),
minister of Old Greyfriars, Edin burgh, who died here.
—Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857.
Logan House, a mansion in Old Cumnock parish, Ayr-
shire, near the left bank of Lugar Water, IJ mile E by
N of Cumnock town. Its owner, William Allason
Cuninghame, Esq. (b. 1805), holds 3783 acres in the
shire, valued at £2836 per annum. The famous Ayr-
shire wit, Hugh Logan, better known as the Laird of
Logan, passed most of his life on the estate. — Ord.
Sur. , sh. 14, 1863.
Logan House, a mansion in Lesmahagow parish,
Lanarkshire, on a head-stream of Logan Water, 7 miles
SW of Abbeygreen. Logan Water, formed by four head-
streams which rise close to the Ayrshire boundary, runs
6 miles north-eastward and east-by-southward to the
Nethan.— Or(Z. Sur., sh. 23, 1865.
Logan House, an old mansion in Penicuik parish,
Edinburghshire, on the left bank of Logan Burn, 6^
miles NW of the town. Its owner, Charles Cowan, Esq.
(b. 1801), Liberal M.P. for Edinburgh 1847-59, holds
5677 acres in the shire, valued at £1816 per annum.
See Glencorse.— OrcZ. Sur., sh. 32. 1857.
Loganlee, a hamlet in Glencorse parish, Edinburgh-
shire, a little N of Greenlaw Barracks, and 2 miles NNE
of Penicuik.
Logie. See Crimond.
Logie, a 17th century baronial mansion, with s-
modern W wing, in Edinkillie parish, Elginshire, on
the right bank of the Findhorn, 2J miles NNW of
Duniphail station. Its owner. Miss Gumming (sue.
1880), holds 1625 acres in the shire, valued at £529
per annum. — Ord. Sur., sh. 84, 1876.
Logie, a mansion in Dunfermline parish, Fife, on th&
PiTTENORiErF estate, 1 J mUe SW of Dunfermline town.
Logie, a quoad sacra parish iu Liff and Benvie
parish, Forfarshire, now incorporated with Liff and
Benvie. Constituted in 1877, it is in the presbytery of
Dundee and the synod of Angus and Mearns. Pop.
(1881) 4270.
Logie, a village and a parish of NE Fife. The village
stands 3 miles NNW of Dairsie station, and 5 NNE of
its post-town, Cupar.
The parish, containing also the village of Lucklawhill
Feus, was anciently called Logie-Murdoch. It is
bounded N by Forgan, E by Leuchars, S by Dairsie,
and W and NW by Kilmany. Its utmost length, from
NE to SW, is 4| miles ; its breadth varies between f
mile and 2^ miles ; and its area is 3599J acres. Motray
Water traces the northern boundary, Moonzie Burn
traces the southern ; and the surface, sinking along
these two streams to 85 and 180 feet above sea-level,
between them rises in several parallel ridges to 335 feet
at Crumblie Hill, 626 at Lucklaw or Inchlaw Hill, and
571 at Forret Hill. The predominant rocks are eruptive ;
and the soil on the slopes of the hills is mostly a good
fertile loam, on their shoulders and summits is thin and
moorish. Nearly five-sixths of the entire area are in.
tillage ; 290 acres are under wood ; and the rest of the
land is pastoral or waste. The estate of Logie, on the
S side of the parish, belonged in the time of Robert III.
to Sir John Wemyss, ancestor of the Earls of Wemyss,
and passed in the reign of James VI. to a younger
branch of the Wemyss family. An incident in the life
of one of its proprietors forms the theme of a ballad
called the Laird of Logie, and published by Sir Walter
Scott in his Minstrelsy of the SeoUish Border. Cruivie
Castle, the chief antiquity, has been separately noticed.
John West, author of a System of Mathematics, was the
son of a minister of the parish, who lived about the
middle of last century. Logie is in the presbytery of
Cupar and synod of Fife ; the living is wortli £252. The
parish church (1826) was restored in 1882, and contains
280 sittings. There is also a Free church; and a public