Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 5

LUTHERMTTIR
LYNEDOCH COTTAGE
land Christian Knowledge Society's school, with respec-
tive accommodation for 87 and 75 children, had (1882)
an average attendance of 47 and 26, and grants of £49,
12s. and £34, 13s. Valuation (1860) £4906, (1884)
£6591, lis. Pop. (1801) 953, (1831) 1181, (1861) 831,
(1871) 730, (1881) 719, of whom 54 were Gaelic-spealv-
ing.—Oni. Siir., shs. 38, 30, 1871-76. See Dr William
Fraser's Chiefs of Colqulioun and their Country (2 vols.,
Edinb. 1869) ; and pp. 64-77 of Dorothy Wordsworth's
Tour in Scotland (Edinb. 1874).
Luthermuir, a village, with a public school, in Mary-
kirk parish, Kincardineshire, near the right bank of
Luther Water, 3| miles S by E of Fettercairn and 5 SW
of Laurencekirk, under which it has a post office.
Founded towards the close of last century on a moor
so barren as to be reckoned worthless, it figured, for a
time, as little else than a resort of destitute and aban-
doned persons from many surrounding parishes, but
forty years ago was mainly occupied by handloom
weavers. Pop. (1841) 967, (1861) 868, (1871) 654,
(1881) 2S3. —Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 186S.
Luther Water, a troutful rivulet of Kincardineshire,
rising at au altitude of 1300 feet among the frontier
Grampians, and curving 13J miles south-south-eastward
and soutli-soutli-westward through Fordoun, Laurence-
kirk, and Marykirk parishes, till, after a total descent
of 1205 feet, it falls into the North Esk at the boundary
with Forfarshire, If mile WNW of Marykirk village. —
Ord. Sur., slis. 66, 57, 1871-68.
Luthrie, a village on the E side of Creich parish,
Fife, 2i miles S of the Firth of Tay, and 5i NW of
Cupar, under which it has a post office.
Lybster, a coast village of Latheron parish, Caith-
ness, 13g miles SW by S of Wick. It has a post office
under Wick, with money order, savings' bank, and
telegraph departments, branches of the Commercial and
the Aberdeen Town and County Banks, two hotels, a
police station, a good boat harbour, a chapel of ease
(1836 ; 805 sittings), a Free church, a public school,
and fairs on the Thursday in July after HUl of Wick
and the second Tuesday of November. Lybster is the
headquarters of one of the twenty-six fishery districts of
Scotland, comprising the fishing villages of Latheron-
wheel, Forse, Lybster, and Clyth. Within this district
the number of lioats at the beginning of 18S3 was 260,
of fishermen and boys 1272, of fishcurers 22, and of
coopers 56, whilst the value of boats was £10,635, of
nets £16,776, and of liuos £991. The following was the
number in different j-ears — of barrels of herrings salted
or cured (1866) 15,806, (1873) 28,350, (1878) 10,417,
(1881) 20,764, (1882) 3458 ; of cod, ling, and hake taken
(1873) 16,979, (ISSl) 1205, (1882) 6200. Pop. (1861)
745, (1S71) 833, (1881) 831.— 0;-d Sur., sh. 110, 1877.
Lydoch or Laidon, Loch, a lake on the mutual border
of Fortingall parish, Perthshire, and Glenorchy parish,
Argyllshire, 6 miles E of Kingshouse Inn. It lies 924
feet above sea-level, amid the dismal expanse of Ran-
noch Muir ; extends 5-J- miles north-eastward ; has a
maximum breadth of h mile ; is all engirt with bog and
heath and rock, presenting a surpassing scene of wild-
ness and desolation, yet possesses within itself many
attractions ; contains abundance of trout, some of them
running up to 8 lbs. in weight ; is gemmed with nearly
a dozen islets, the haunts of the red deer and the eagle ;
and sends oflF, from a point near its head, the rivulet
Gauir, 7 miles eastward to the head of Loch Rannoch
—Ord. Sur., sh. 54, 1873.
Lymekilns. See Limekilns.
Lymphoy. See Lennox C.a.stle, Edinburghshire.
Lyne and Megget, a united parish of Peeblesshire,
consisting of two widely separate portions — Lyne, near
the centre of the county ; and Megget, 13 miles to the
S, on the southern border. Lyne, whose church is 4J
miles AV of Peebles and IJ mile WNW of Lyne station
in Stobo parish, is hounded NE by Eddleston, E by
Peebles, S and SW by Stobo, aud NW by Newlands.
Its utmost length, from N to S, is^2J miles ; its utmost
breadth, from E to W, is 2| miles ; and its area is 2793
acres. Ltne Water flows 3| mUes south-eastward and
oastwardalong all the Stobo boundary to apoint 3furlong3
above its influx to the Tweed, and here receives four
rivulets, one of them tracing all the eastern border.
The surface sinks at the SE corner to 565 feet above
sea-level, thence rising to 701 feet at the Roman camp,
1261 at Hamildean liill, 1334 at Black Meldon, and
1516 near the NW boundary.
Megget, whose chapel of ease is 19 J miles WSW of
Selkirk, is bounded N by Manor, NE by Yarrow in
Selkirkshire, E for 7 furlongs by St Mary's Loch, SE by
Ettrick in Selkirkshire, SW by Moffat in Dumfriesshire,
W by Tweedsmuir, and NW by Drummelzier. Its
utmost length, from NNE to SSW, is 7| miles; its
utmost breadth is 6§ miles ; aud its area is 14,500 acres.
Megget Water, rising at an altitude of 1500 feet, winds
7^ miles east-north-eastward to St Maet's Loch, on the
way being joined by Cramalt, Glengaber, and sixteen
other burns, which all, like itself, afford capital trout-
fishing. Along St Mary's Loch the surface declines to
close on 800 feet above sea-level, and chief elevations to
the S of Megget Water as one goes up the valley are
Bridgend Hill {1594 feet), Craigdilly (1923), aud *Loch-
craig Head (2625) ; to the N, Broomy Law (1750), *Deer
Law (2065), *Black Law (2285), Clockmore (2100),
*Norman Law (2408), and *Broad Law (2723), where
asterisks mark those summits that culminate on the
confines of the parish. ' The high-lying ground here —
brown, heathy, and pastoral — is perhaps the wildest in
the South of Scotland, visited only by shepherds and
sportsmen. '
The predominant rocks are Silurian. Barely one-
seventeenth of the entire area is in tillage, the rest
being pastoral or waste ; but such arable land as
there is has a gravelly soil of fair fertility, with a
southern exposure in Lyne. AVhere now there is scarce
a tree, of old was forest, Meggetland or ' Rodonna '
having formed part of the royal Forest of Etteick
down to Queen Mary's reign. A ruined tower at
Cramalt is said to have been a royal hunting-seat ;
and lower domi the dale, on Henderlasd farm, stood
Cockburn's Castle, scene of the ' Border Widow's
Lament.' A large British fort is on Hamildean Hill ;
and just to the W of L3me church are remains of a
Roman camp. ' Randal's Walls ' it was called at the
beginning of last century ; and, as depicted in Roy's
Military Antiquities (1795), it has an extreme length
and breadth of 850 and 750 feet, its four environing
ramparts, 4 to 5 feet high, being pierced by four
entrances. Since then, however, the plough has greatly
destroyed it. The Earl of Wemyss is almost sole pro-
prietor. Lyne is in the presbytery of Peebles and the
synod of Lothian and Tweeddale ; the living is worth
£215. Crowning a grassy mound, above the left bank
of Lyne Water, the parish church is a pretty, antique
structure, rebuilt or renovated in 1644 by John, Lord
Hay of Yester, and containing 80 sittings. Megget
chapel dates from the beginning of this century. Lyne
and Megget public schools, with respective accommoda-
tion for 47 .and 29 children, had (1882) an average
attendance of 39 and 11, and grants of £47, 9s. and £24
15s. 6d. Valuation (1863) £4497, 10s., (1884) £4852,
12s. 6d. Pop. (1801) 167, (1831) 156,(1861) 134, (1871)
174, (1881) 204, of whom 90 were in Megget. —0)-(?.
Sur., shs. 24, 16, 1864.
Lyne Burn, a rivulet of Dunfermline parish, SW
Fife, rising uear Crossgates in the NE corner of the
parish, and running 7 miles south-westward and south-
ward through the interior and along the Torryburn
border, till it falls into the Firth of Forth immediately
to the W of Charlestown. It is often called Spital
Burn, properly Hospital Burn, from its washing the
site of the ancient Hospital of St Leonard's at the S
side of Dunfermline town ; and it receives, a little
SW of that site, a tributary coming 2i miles southward
from Lochhead.— Orf?. Sur., shs. 40, 32, 1867-57.
Lynedoch Cottage or House, a mansion in Methven
parish, Perthshire, standing, amid beautiful grounds,
on the left bank of the river Almond, 2 miles NNE of
Methven village] and 7 WNW of Perth. The estate
567