Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland

BURROW-MOOR
Burrow-Moor. See Borough Mthr.
Burwiok, a hamlet near the southern extremity of
South Ronaldshay island, Orkney. It has a post office
under Kirkwall, and a ferry to Caithness.
Busby, a manufacturing town, partly in the Lanark-
shire parish of East Kilbride, but chiefly in Mearns and
Cathcart parishes, Renfrewshire, 5A miles S of Glasgow
by road, or 7 J by a line (incorporated 1863) that diverges
at Pollokshaws from the Barrhead railway, and has a
length thence of 4J miles to Busby and 8| to East Kil-
bride. Standing on White Cart Water, and surrounded
by charming scenery, it is a pleasant, well-built place,
and has a post office under Glasgow with money order,
savings bank and telegraph departments, a print-field,
a cotton-mill (established 1780), a bleachfield, and
chemical and starch works. There are an Established
church, a Free church, a U.P. church (1836; 400 sit-
tings), and St Joseph's Roman Catholic church (1880;
400 sittings): The town was in 18S9 erected into the
quoad sacra parish of Greenbank, comprising portions
of Cathcart, Eastwood, and Mearns parishes. A public
school, with accommodation for 540 children, had (1S91)
an average attendance of 314, and a grant of £311, 10s.
Pop. (1841) 902, (1861) 1778, (1871) 2137, (1881) 2155,
(1891) 1943, of whom 625 belonged to Lanarkshire; pop.
of q. s. parish 2226.— Ord. Sur., sh. 22, 1865.
Busby, an extensive moor on the mutual border of
Ardrossan and West Kilbride parishes, Ayrshire, 3 miles
N of Ardrossan town.
Bush, a hamlet near Lauriston station, in St Cyrus
parish, S Kincardineshire.
Bush, an estate, with a modern mansion, in Glencorse
parish, Edinburghshire, 2 miles N by E of Penicuik.
It is the seat of Col. R. A. Trotter, owner of 1919 acres
in the shire, valued at £2998 per annum, including
£500 for minerals.
Bushyhill, a village in Cambuslang parish, Lanark-
shire, one of the cluster of villages popularly regarded
as Cambtjslang town, and situated near Cambuslang
station, 4J miles SE of Glasgow. It has shared in the
general improvement and prosperity of Cambuslang, and
has a public school.
Busta, an estate, with a mansion, in Delting parish,
Shetland. A bay on its coast is called Bustavoe ; and
a granite monolith on it, about 17 feet in circumference
and 10J feet high, is called the standing-stone of Busta.
Bute, an island in the N of Buteshire. It is sur-
rounded by belts, bands, or expanses of the Pirth of
Clyde ; and, round its northern half, is separated from
Argyllshire only by_the narrow semicircular belt called
the Kyles of Bute. It extends south-south-eastward
from the elbow of the Kyles at the mouth of Loch Riddon
to the narrow part of the fair- way of the Firth of Clyde,
only 2J miles wide between itself and Little Cumbrae
island. Its greatest length, from Buttock Point south-
south-eastward to Garroch Head, is 15 J miles ; its breadth
varies between 9 furlongs and 6J miles (from Bogany
Point to Ardscalpsie Point) ; and its area, including
Inchmamtock, is 31,836J acres or 49J square miles.
The coast is indented on the E by Kames, Rothesay, and
Kilchattan Bays ; on the W by Dunagoil, Stravanan,
Scalpsie, St Kinians, and Etterick Bays ; and, for the
most part rocky, includes some sweeps and stretches of
fine beach. The interior seems at one time to have
formed four hilly islands, and now is traversed by three
low continuous, nearly parallel dingles, dividing it into
four districts. The northernmost and largest of these,
terminating in a dingle running from Kames Bay to
Etterick Bay, has an extreme length and breadth of
5i and 4J miles ; and here, from N to S, rise Muelich
Hill (638 feet), North Hill of Bulloehreg (769), Torran
Turach (745), Kilbride Hill (836), Kames Hill (875),
and Eenan Hill (538). The second district extends
to a dingle running from Rothesay Bay to Scalpsie
Bay ; measures 4| by 6J miles ; and attains 457 feet
above sea-level near Kamesburgh, 530 near Auchiemore
Wood, and 477 to the W of the head of Loch Fad ; and
has a more diversified coast than any of the other
districts. The third extends to a dingle running from
BUTE, NORTH
Kilchattan Bay to Stravanan Bay ; its highest point is
Ardencraig (433 feet), J mile E of Rothesay. The
southernmost and smallest district measures only about
24 miles by 2, and attains an elevation of 517 feet
above sea-level near Kilchattan, of 485 in Torr Mor.
The general surface displays a charming variety of con-
tour and slope, containing thousands of points which
command great sweeps of gorgeous prospect, and hun-
dreds which command magnificent panoramic views.
The views round the Kyles, up Lochs Striven, Riddon,
and Fyne, down Kilbrannan Sound, over and along the
Firth of Clyde, on to the mountains of Cowal, the swelling
hills of Kintyre, the sublime peaks of Arran, the broken
surfaces of the Cumbraes, and the rich, vast amphi-
theatre of Ayrshire, are among the most exquisite in
Scotland. Rothesay Bay alone, with the views outward
from it, is worth a long journey to behold. The other
bays also, and the entire semicircle of the Kyles, are
brilliantly picturesque. A chain of lakes — Lochs Ascog
(1 mile x 2 furl.), Fad (2J x £ mile), Quien (5 x 2| furl.)
— lies along most of the dingle separating the second
district from the third. The longest rivulet, the Glen-
more Burn, rises within 2 miles of the northern extre-
mity, and runs 4J miles S by eastward, along Glen
More, to the northern side of Etterick Bay. Other
streams are numerous, but most have a run of less than
2, and none of more than 2 J, miles. Micaceous schist is
almost the sole formation throughout the northern dis-
trict ; clay and chlorite slate, resting in parts on great
beds of quartz, prevail throughout the second ; the third
is composed of Old Red sandstone ; and trap rocks,
erupted through and overlying Old Red sandstone, pre-
dominate throughout the southernmost district. Veins
of copper ore were discovered near Kames Bay shortly
before 1859 ; and other mineral deposits are lime, coal,
and slate, but all of inferior quality.
The island is divided politically into Rothesay, North
Bute, and Kingarth parishes ; includes the quoad sacra
parish of New Rothesay, and 2 chapelries in Rothesay ;
and is ecclesiastically in the presbytery of Dunoon and
synod of Argyll. Its only town is Rothesay ; and its
chief villages are Port Bannatjnie or Kamesburgh and
Ascog. Its detailed features are noticed in articles on
the parishes and principal localities ; its antiquities and
other special objects of interest under Rothesay, Eames,
Dungy le, Blanes, and Mountstuart ; and its history
is given under Rothesay and the Hebrides. Bute gives
the title of Earl in the peerage of Scotland, of Marquis
in that of the United Kingdom, to a branch of the
family of Stewart. The earldom was created in 1703,
the marquisate in 1796 ; and the former was preceded
by the titles of Baron Crichton, Viscount of Ayr, and
Earl of Dumfries. The Marquis takes also from places
in Bute the titles of Baron Mountstuart and Viscount
of Kingarth ; and, from other Buteshire islands, the
titles of Baron Cumbrae and Baron Inchmarnock. His
'ordship's Scottish seats are Mountstuart in Bute, and
Dumfries House in Ayrshire. Valuation £79,293, in-
cluding £54, 704 for the burgh of Rothesay. Pop. (1801 )
6106, (1831) 6830, (1841) 9499, (1851) 10,661, (1861)
9306, (1871) 10,064, (1881) 10,998, (1891) 11,735, of
whom 985 were Gaelic speaking. — Ord. Sur., shs. 21, 29,
1870-73. See J. Wilson, Rothesay and the Island of Bute,
and Arch. M'Neilage, 'On the Agriculture of Bute and
Arran,' in the Trans, of the Highl. and Aq. Soc, 1881.
Bute, Kyles of. See Kyles of Bute.
Buteland, an estate of the Earl of Rosebery, in Currie
parish, Edinburghshire. On it are several small sub-
ordinate properties, with handsome residences.
Bute, North, the northernmost parish of Bute island,
Buteshire, bounded SE by Rothesay parish. Its church
stands in the dingle between Kames and Ettrick Bays,
1 mile W of Port Bannatyne, and 3£ miles NW of
Rothesay; and its post-town is Port Bannatyne under
Rothesay, with money order, savings bank, and telegraph
departments. It comprehends Inchmarnock island, and
the parts of Bute island north of Rothesay burgh; and,
with an extreme length and breadth of 8 and 4 miles,
has a land area of 14,756 acres. The natural features
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