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CROSSMYLOOF.
CROSS-. See Cors-.
CROSS, a district with a government church in
Lewis. See Baryas.
CROSS and BURNESS, an united parish in the
island of Sanda, Orkney. Cross comprises the south-
western limb of the island, and Burness the north-
western limb. See the articles Saxda and Burn-ess.
Fopulation of Cross, inclusive of Burness, in 1851,
1,526; in 1861, 1,555. Houses, 284.— This united
parish — with which North Ronaldsay was alsouniteil
until 1S31 — is in the presbytery of North Isles, and
synod of Orkney. Patron, the Earl of Zetland.
Stipend, £210; glebe, £19. Unappropriated teinds,
£27 0s. 4d. Worship is performed alternately at
(h-oss and at Burness. Schoolmaster's salary, £45,
■with £10 fees.
CROSS-ARTHURLEE. See Arthl-rlee.
CROSSBASKET. See Kilbrtde (East).
CROSSCHAIN HILL. See Fala and Soutra.
CROSSFIELD HILL. See Unst.
CROSSFORD, a village in the parish of Dun-
fermline, Fifeshire. It stands 1J mile west of the
town of Dunfermline, on the road thence to Alloa.
It contains a brewery, and is inhabited chiefly by
table-linen weavers. Population, 379.
CROSSFORD, a village with a post-office in the
north-east corner of the parish of Lesmahagow,
Lanarkshire. It is inhabited chiefly by weavers,
miners, and small proprietors. Here is an United
Presbvterian church. The population in 1861 was
530.
CROSSGATES, a post-office village, partly in the
parish of Dalgety but chiefly in that of Dunfermline,
Fifeshire. It stands at the intersection of the road
from Edinburgh to Perth with the road from Dun-
fermline to Kirkcaldy, 3£ miles east-north-east of
Dunfermline, 5 north of North Queensferry, aud 10
south-south-east of Kinross. It has a station on the
Thornton and Dunfermline branch of the North
British railway. A United Presbyterian church,
containing 531 sittings, was built here in 1802.
Population in 1861 of the entire village, 1,115; of
the Dunfermline section, 82S.
CROSSGATES, a hamlet in the parish of Cults,
Fifeshire.
CROSSHILL, a large village, with a post-office,
in the parish of Kirkmichael, Ayrshire. It stands
on Girvan Water, and on the south road from May-
bole to Straiton, 3 miles south-west of Maybole.
Its principal part is a long regular street of one-
story houses, commencing at the Girvan, running,
over most of its length, at right angles with the
stream, and then debouching to the north. This
street is winged at a little distance with shorter lines
of buildings. About four-fifths of the inhabitants
are either Irish or of Irish extraction ; and a large
proportion are handloom weavers. A quoad sacra
parish church here was built in 1838, and is in the
patronage of Sir James Ferguson, Bart. A Free
church also is here; and its contributions in 1865
were £77 12s. llfd. Here likewise are two schools,
a savings' bank, and a friendly society. The appear-
ance of the village is neat and pleasant far above
that of most places of its kind. Population in 1861,
1,107.
CROSSHILL, a district in the north-west of the
parish of Old Monkland, Lanarkshire. It is bounded
on the south by the road from Glasgow to Shotts, on
the west by the Barony parish of Glasgow, on the
north by the parish of Cadder, and on the east by
lines of road from Lusshill to Bishop Loch. It in-
cludes the villages of Crosshill, Bailieston, Barach-
nie, Craigend, West Merrystone, and Swinton. A
chapel of ease, at the first of these villages, was the
earliest of the Extension churches, and was built to
contain about 600 sittings without galleries. Popu-
lation of the district in 1851, 2,591.
CROSSHILL, a small village in the parish of
Cathcart, Renfrewshire.
CROSSHILL, a hamlet, contiguous to the villago
of Aldhouse, near the centre of the parish of East
Kilbride, Lanarkshire.
CROSSHOUSE, a village in the parish of Kil-
maurs, Ayrshire. Population, 468.
CROSS-ISLE, one of the Shetland isles, lying at
the entrance of Quendal bay, and constituting part
of the parish of Dunrossness.
CEOSSLEE, a post-office hamlet on the southern
verge of the Gala-Water district of Edinburghshire,
4 miles south of Stow.
CEOSSLEE, a village in the parish of Houston
and Killallan, Renfrewshire. It stands on a small
tributary of the Gryfe, 3 J miles south-west of
Erskine feny, and 7 miles north-west of Paisley.
Here is a cotton mill which was built in 1793, and
employs about 300 hands. Population, 383.
CROSSMICHAEL. a parish, containing the post-
office village of Crossmichael, and also the village of
Clarebrand, near the centre of Kirkcudbrightshire.
It is of a rectangular form, extending in length
about 5, and in breadth about 4 miles. Its super-
ficial area is 7,696 acres. It is bounded on the east
by the Urr, which divides it from the parishes of
Kirkpatrick-Duiham and Urr ; and on the west by
the Dee, which divides it from Balmagie ; on the
north-west it has Parton parish ; and on the south-
east Buittle and Kelton. From the two rivers, the
ground rises into a fertile ridge, beautifully diversi-
fied with gentle eminences. Towards the northern
border there is a small part covered with heath.
Along the rivers are extensive meadows. There are
three lakes in the parish, called Emcrags, Roan, and
Smaddy, abounding with pike and perch. The pa-
rish is traversed by the Castle-Douglas and Port-
patrick railway, and has a station on it. The number
of heritors is no fewer than twenty-eight. There
are several Pictish monuments of antiquity, and the
remains of ancient fortifications. Near the kirk of
Crossmichael, at a place called Crofts, is a very
beautiful oval camp, occupying the summit of a hill,
and commanding the river immediately below. The
parish impinges at its south end on the environs of
Castle-Douglas, and is traversed by the road thence
to New Galloway. The village of Crossmichael
stands on that road 4 miles north-west of Castle-
Douglas. It is a pleasing little place. Here stood,
in ancient times, a cross dedicated to St. Michael,
around which the peasantry of the neighbourhood
were wont to assemble at Michaelmas to a fair
The cross has disappeared, but the fair is still held.
Population of the village in 1861, 326. Population
of the parish in 1S31, 1,325 ; in 1S61, 1,536. Houses,
279. Assessed property in 1860, £10,725.
This parish, formerly a prebend of Sweetheart
abbey, is in the presbytery of Kirkcudbright, and
synod of Gallowav. Patroness, Mrs. Gauld. Sti-
pend, £269 15s. lOd. ; glebe, £24. There are two
parochial schools. Salary of the first master now
is £45, with about £18 fees; of the second, £30,
with £11 lis. 3d. from a fund mortified in 1735, bv
William Gordon, merchant in Bristol, in consequence
of which he is not entitled to school-fees. The
parish church was built in 1751, and enlarged in
1822, and contains about 650 sittings. There is an
United Presbyterian church on the southern border
of the parish adjacent to Castle-Douglas. There are
two private schools.
CROSSMILL. See Corsemill.
CROSSMYLOOF, a village in the north-west
corner of the parish of Cathcart, Renfrewshire. It