A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . tle. A small fair is held once a jear. Near themouth of the river, at Wormy-hills, is an establishmentfor bleaching yarns, and on the same stream are threemeal-mills and a flax-mill. There is also a meal-millon a small river which forms the boundary line betweenthis parish and Panbride. Ecclesiastically Arbirlot
A topographical dictionary of Scotland, comprising the several counties, islands, cities, burgh and market towns, parishes, and principal villages, with historical and statistical descriptions: embellished with engravings of the seals and arms of the different burghs and universities . tle. A small fair is held once a jear. Near themouth of the river, at Wormy-hills, is an establishmentfor bleaching yarns, and on the same stream are threemeal-mills and a flax-mill. There is also a meal-millon a small river which forms the boundary line betweenthis parish and Panbride. Ecclesiastically Arbirlot iswithin the bounds of the presbytery of Arbroath andsynod of Angus and Mearns; the patronage is vestedin the Crown, and the ministers stipend is £184. 4. 5.,in addition to which he has a manse, and a glebe of theannual value of £6. The church, rebuilt in 1832, is anelegant structure, situated on the bank of the Elliot, andcontaining about 640 sittings. A place of worship hasbeen erected for members of the Free Church. Thereis a parochial school, the master of which has a salaryi)f £34. 4., and £20 fees, &;c., with a house and savings bank managed by the minister, and a paro-chial hbrary, consisting of above 500 volumes, kept inthe manse, are also Seal and Arms. ARBROATH, or Aber-BROTHOCK, a thriving sea-port, a burgh, and parish,in the county of Forf.\r,15 miles (S. E. by E.) fromForfar, and 60 (N. N. E.)from Edinburgh ; the parishcontaining, with the formercjuoad sacra parish of Abbey,and part of the quoad sacraparish of Ladyloan, 8707inhabitants, of whom 7218are in the burgh. Withinthe parliamentary boundary is a population of 14, place derives its name (originally Aberbrothock, ofwhich its present appellation is a contraction) from itssituation at the mouth of the river Brothock, whichfalls into the German Ocean. An abbey was foundedhere in the year 1178, by William the Lion, King ofScotland, for monks of the Tyronensian order, broughtfro
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