Imperial gazeteer of Scotland, or, Dictionary of Scottish topography > Volume 1

BONJEDWARD.
181
BORGUE.
230 and 430 ; sums raised in 1865, £272 9s. 5d., and
£350 8s. lOJd. A United Presbyterian church is in
Bonhill, and another is in Alexandria ; attendance,
400 and 600. An Independent chapel is in Alex-
andria; attendance, 100. A Roman Catholic chapel
also is there, and was built in 1861 ; attendance, 700.
A female school is attached to each of the parochial
schools ; an excellent school is supported by Messrs.
James Black & Co.; and there are six other schools.
BONITOWN. See Auchtekhouse.
BONJEDWAKD, a village in the parish of Jed-
burgh, Roxburghshire. It stands at the intersection
of the road from Jedburgh to Edinburgh with the
road from Kelso to Hawick, about J of a mile above
the confluence of the Jed and the Teviot, and 2
miles north of Jedburgh. Population, 107.
BONKLE, a romantically situated village, on
Allanton estate, in the central part of the parish of
Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire. Here is an United
Presbyterian church, which was built in 1818, and
contains 560 sittings. Population, 110.
BONNINGTON, a village on the left bank of the
Water of Leith, and on the lower road from Edin-
burgh to Newhaven, about J a mile south of North
Leith and about a mile north of Edinburgh. It
comprises a few good lofty houses, and has a sub-
urban appearance. The Leith branch of the North
British railway passes near it, and has a station for
it. There is a mineral well here.
BONNINGTON, a village in the parish of Ratho,
about 1J mile west of the village of Ratio, Edin-
burghshire. The lands of Bonuington around it
belonged anciently to Robert de Erskine, — in the
middle of the 17th century to Lord Collington, — and
since then successively to the families of Durham,
Cunningham, and Wilkie. Population of the village
in 1851, 132.
BONNINGTON or Bonxyton, a hamlet in the
parish of Arbirlot, about 2 miles west of the village
of Arbirlot, Forfarshire.
BONNINGTON, or Boxnyton, Lanarkshire. See
Clyde (The').
BONNY (The), a rivulet of Dumbartonshire and
Stirlingshire. It rises in the south-east of the parish
of Cumbernauld, and runs ahout 7 miles north-east-
ward to a junction with the Carron a little below
Dunipace.
BONNYBRIDGE, a village in the parish of Fal-
kirk, Stirlingshire. It stands on Bonny "Water and
on the road from Falkirk to Glasgow, about a mile
above the mouth of Bonny Water and 4 miles west
of Falkirk. Here is a school with a small endow-
ment ; and in the vicinity is a small burying-ground.
Population, 184.
BONNYMOOR, a moorland rising-ground in the
parish of Falkirk, about a mile south of the village
of Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. A skirmish took
place here in 1820, between a small party of armed
radicals from Glasgow and a small party of military.
The affair has been called the battle of Bonnymoor;
but was of no other consequence than for its terminat-
ing a period of intense political excitement in the
west of Scotland. Nineteen of the radical skirmish-
ers were taken prisoners and lodged in Stirling
Castle ; and after being brought to trial, two of them
were executed and the rest transported.
BONNYRIGG, a village in the parish of Cockpen,
Edinburghshire. It stands on the road from Lasswade
to Stow, ahout 1 mile south-east of Lasswade and 2
miles south-west of Dalkeith. It contains many
good houses, is a summer resort of families from
Edinburgh, and has a station on the Peebles rail-
way. Here is a Free church, whose yearly income
in 1865 amounted to £435 14s. Pop. 'in 1861, 898.
BONNYTON. See Bonsington and Maryton.
BOON DREIGII. See Legerwood.
BOON HILL. See Legerwood.
BOOSHALA, or Bhuachille, an islet off the
south coast of Staft'a, from which it is separated by
a channel about 30 yards wide, through which a
foamy surf is constantly rushing. It is of an irregu-
lar pyramidal form, entirely composed of basaltic
pillars inclined in every direction, but principally
pointing towards the top of the cone, resembling —
Dr. Garnet remarks — billets of wood piled up in
order to be charred. Many of the columns are
horizontal, and some of them are bent into segments
of circles.
BOOTHILL. See Scone.
BOQUHAN. See Garguhuock and Kippen.
BORA HOLM, one of the Orkneys; constituting
part of the parish of Rendal. It lies opposite to the
entrance of the harbour called the Millburn, in the
isle of Gairsa, and is iminhabited.
BORELAND, a village in the parish of Dysart,
ahout A a mile south-east of Gallaton, Fifeshire. It
is inhabited chiefly by colliers. It was founded
about 120 years ago, and was at one time a good
deal more extensive than at present. Population
in 1841, 193; in 1861,313.
BORELAND PARK, a village in the parish of
Auchterarder, Perthshire. Population in 1851, 141.
See Auchterarder.
BORENNICH, a district of the valley of the
Tummel, in the parish of Blair- Athole, Perthshire.
BORERAY, a small fertile island of the Hebrides,
lying northward of North Uist. It is about 1A mile
in length, and A_ mile in hreadth. Lochmore, a small
lake in this island, the bottom of which was only
2 J feet above low water-mark, was recently drained,
whereby, at an expense of only £125, about 47 Scots
acres of good soil, being a mixture of alluvial earth
and sand, were gained. Population, 181.
BORERAY, a small island of the Hebrides, about
a mile in circuit, lying 2 miles north of St. Kilda.
BORGIE (The), a rivulet of Sutherlandshire. It
issues from Loch Loyal, and flows north-north-east-
ward, chiefly along the boundary between the
parish of Farr and the parish of Tongue, to the west
side of the bay of Torrisdale, at a point about a mile
west of the mouth of the Naver. Its length of
course is about 9 miles.
BORGUE, a parish, containing_ the post-office
village of Borgue, and also the villages of Kirk-
andrews and Chapelton, on the seaboard of Kirkcud-
brightshire. It comprises the ancient parishes of
Borgue, Sandwick, and Kirkandrews. It is bounded
by the Solway frith, the estuary of the Dee, and the
parishes of Twynholm and Girthon. It has a tri-
angular outline, and measures 10 miles in length, 7
miles in extreme breadth, and about 25 square miles
in area. Its coast has an extent of upwards of 15
miles, with several hays and indentations where
vessels may safely ride at anchor; and it presents
in some places perpendicular cliffs 300 feet high and
very grandly picturesque. The views from the
summit of these cliffs, and from a small island called
Little Ross, comprise a superb panorama of the cir-
cumjacent sea-board, the Solway, the Irish Sea, the
Isle of Man, and the mountain- ranges of Cumber-
land. The surface of the parish is very unequal,
consisting largely of the alluvial bottoms of ancient
lakes encompassed with hillocks and rising grounds
of great diversity of form. About one-third is un
cultivated and could not be profitably reclaimed;
and nearly all the rest is regularly or occasionally
in tillage. The prevailing arable soil is a free loam.
The chief landowners are the Earl of Selkirk, Sir
William Gordon of Earlston, and four others. The
average rent of arable land is about £1 per acre.