Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland > Volume 5

MALLENT
living is worth £372. The parish church is a plain
building, erected in 1807, and liaving accommodation
for 150 people. A Free church, with 250 sittings, was
built by tlie late Miss Elizabeth Makdougall, who also
left £1500 towards its endowment, and built, at her
own expense, an excellent manse. The public school,
with accommodation for 103 children, had (1883) an
average attendance of 76, and a grant of £48, lis.
Valuation (1864) £5001, Is., (1884) £6809, 9s. Pop.
(1801) 248, (1831) 326, (1861)380,(1871)361,(1881)
3Sl.—0rd. Sur., sh. 25, 1865.
Malleny, an estate, with a mansion, in Currie parish,
Edinburghshire, close to Balerno village and station.
The house is old and ivy-mantled, with Dutch gardens,
and tine old yews and plane-trees. The estate from the
middle of the 17th century was held by a branch of the
Scotts of Murdieston, one of whose members was General
Thomas Scott (1745-1841). By his gi-and-nephew. Col.
Francis Cunningham Scott, C.B., it was sold in 1882
for £125,000 to the Earl of Eosebery. "With a rental of
£4351 it comprises 2972 acres, of which 2127 are arable,
630 hill-pasture, and 190 woodland and plantations. —
Orel. Sur., sh. 32, 1857. See Dalmeny, and John
Small's Castles and Mansions of the Lothians (Ediub.
1883).
Maltan Walls. See Anckum.
Mam-Eatagain. See Maam-Ratagain.
Mam-Suil. See Maam-Suil.
Manar, a commodious mansion, with finely-wooded
grounds, in Inverurie parish, Aberdeenshire, near the
left bank of the Don, 3J miles WSW of Inverurie town.
Its o^vner, Henry Gordon, Esq. (b. 1848 ; sue. 1874),
holds 2260 acres in the shire, valued at £2115 per an-
num. — Ord. Sur., sh. 76, 1874.
Manderston, a fine modern mansion in Duns parish,
Berwickshire, lij mUe EbyNofDuns town. Its owner,
Sir William Miller, Bart. (b. 1809; ere. 1874), was
Liberal M.P. for Leith 1859-68, and for Berwickshire
1878-74. He holds 961 acres in Berwick and 172 in
Haddington shires, valued at £2970 and £923 per annum.
—Ord. Sur., sh. 34, 1864.
Manner. See JIanoe.-
Mannofield, a village at the boundary between Old
Machar and Banchory-Devenick parishes, Aberdeen-
shire, 2 miles SW of Aberdeen, under which it has a
post ofBce. Its Established church was raised to qiioud
sacra status in 1882.
Manor, Aberdeenshire. See Manae.
Manor(in 1186 Maineure; Cymric maenawr, ' a manor
or district enclosed in a stone boundary ; ' maen, ' stone '),
a parish of Pi-oblesshire, whose church stands on the lei't
bank of Manor Water, 3 miles SW of the post-town,
Peebles. It is bounded NW by Stobo, N and E by
Peebles, SE by Yarrow in Selkirkshire, S by the Megget
section of Lyne, and W by Drummelzier and Stobo. Its
utmost length, from N to S, is 11 miles ; its utmost breadth
is 4i miles ; and its area is 1 6, 67 1 g acres, of which nearly
50 are water. Manor Water, rising in the extreme S
at an altitude of 2000 feet above sea-level, runs lOf
mUes north-by -eastward — for the last 5J furlongs along
the Peebles boundary — till, after a total descent of 1400
feet, it falls into the Tweed at a point If mile WSW of
Peebles, and 1 furlong below one-arch Manorfoot Bridge
(1702). It is joined by Glenrath Buen and nearly
a dozen more little affluents, most of which, like itself,
afford capital trout-fishing. The Tweed curves 2|
miles east-by-northward along all the north-western
and northern boundary, and just above Manorfoot is
spanned by a handsome five-arch stone bridge, 260 feet
long, erected in 1881-83 at a cost of £3000. At the
influx of Manor Water to the Tweed the surface
declines to 600 feet above sea-level ; and chief eleva-
tions to the W of the Manor, as one goes up the
vale, are Whitelaw Hill (1521 feet), the *Scrape (2347),
Posso Craigs (1817), *Pykestone Hill (2414), *Dollae
Law (2680), and *Norman Law (2408); to the E,
Canada Hill (1716), *Hundleshope Heights (2249),
Glenrath Hill (2049), *Blackhoube Heights (2213),
•Black Law (2285), and *Shielhope Head (2110), where
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MANUEL HOUSE
asterisks mark those summits that culminate on the
confines of the parish. The great green hills, their
summits clothed with heather, have mostly a rapid
ascent ; beyond Posso they closely approach, and grow
wild and towering. The rocks are Lower Silurian, and
the soil is generally light. At an early period cultiva-
tion was carried far up the vale, perhaps to its very
head ; but later tillage was abandoned, especially in the
upper reaches, which may account for the old rhyme —
• There stand three mills on Manor Water,
A fourth at Posso Cleugh ;
Gin heather-bells were corn and here.
They wad get grist eneugh.'
In the lower half of the parish the cultivation of cereals
and green crops, always more or less followed, is now
the principal industry. The parish is rich in antiqui-
ties and objects of interest, comprising hill-forts, of
which there are several well defined ; peel-towers, that
of Castlehill being the most prominent, and that of
Baens (1498) the best preserved ; the site of ' Macbeth's
Castle ; ' the site of St Gordian's Kirk, far up the vale,
in Kirkhope, marked by a granite runic cross, with the
old font stone at its base ; the Ship Stone, under Posso
Craigs ; a tumulus known as the ' Giant's Grave, ' in Glen-
rath Hope ; a cup-marked fallen monolith, near Bellan-
ridge (an old woman, 'tis said, whom the devil turned into
stone) ; and traces of the old ' Thief s Road, ' or freebooters'
mountain bridle-way. One and all are surpassed in
interest by the lowly cottage (1802) of the 'Black
Dwarf," ' Bowed Davie ' Ritchie (1740-1811), near AVood-
house farm, 1 mile SW of the Kirkton. Here in 1797
he received a visit from Sir Walter Scott, who was stay-
ing at Hallyards with Professor Ferguson. His chair,
scarce as high as a hassock, is still kept at Woodhouse ;
and a tombstone in the churchyard, erected by Messrs
Chambers in 1845, marks the spot where they laid him
to rest. A rest soon broken, for his legs no longer tlian
a two-year child's, and his ape-like arms, so marvellously
strong, proved too strong a temptation to resun-ee-
tionists, as one learns from Dr John Brown's HorcB
Subscciva;. Mansions, are Baen,s, Glenternie, and
Hallyaed.? ; and 5 proprietors hold each an annual
value of more, 2 of less, than £500. Manor is in
the presbytery of Peebles and the synod of Lothian
and "rweeddale ; the living is worth £309. The parish
church is a handsome Gothic edifice of 1873-74, mth
188 sittings and two memorial windows. Within the
vestry is a table made of oak that had been used for
church building purposes not later than the 13th
century ; and a bell in the belfry bears the Latin in-
scription, 'In honore Sanct. Gordiani, mcccolxxviii.'
The public school, with accommodation for 59 children,
had (1883) an average attendance of 46, and a grant of
£60, lis. Valuation (1860) £4201, (1884) £6109, Is. 9d.
Pop. (1801) 308, (1831) 254, (1861) 247, (1871) 271,
(1881) 217.— Ord. Sur., shs. 24, 16, 1864.
Mansfield House, a mansion in New Cumnock parish,
AjTshire, 1^ mile E by N of New Cumnock village.
It is the seat of Sir James Stuart-Menteth, third
Bart, since 1838 (b. 1841 ; sue. 1870), who holds 2846
acres in the shire, valued at £1898 per annum,
and whose grandfather. Sir Charles G. Stuart-Menteth,
Bart, of Closeburn (1760-1847), a distinguished agri-
cultural improver, acquired the estate by purchase.
It is rich in coal and limestone ; and, after coming into
Sir Charles's possession, it underwent vast improve-
ment at once in agriculture, in mining operations, and
in the opening up of railway transit. — Ord. Sur., sh.
15, 1864.
Manuel House, a mansion in Muiravonside parish,
Stirlingshire, near the left bank of the Avon, 2J miles
WSW of Linlithgow. Manuel Junction, on the North
British railway, at the intersection of the Edinburgh
and Glasgow with the Slamannan and Bo'ness lines, is
2 miles W of Linlithgow. Manuel or Emmanuel Priory,
near the mansion, was founded for Cistercian nuns in
1156 by Malcolm IV., and received considerable endow-
ments and donations, at different periods, from various
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