. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . V. There are a town-hall; the Vic-toria Hall, erected in 1865 for lectnres, concerts, andpublic meetings; a post office, with money order, sav-ings bank, and telegraph departments ; branches of theBank of Scotland and Union Bank ; a savings bank, and8 insurance agencies; gas-works; 3 hotels; a choral union;and agricultural and horticultural societies. Placesof worship are the parish church (built 1780 ; enlarged1838; and seating 900), a Free church, and 2 (North and Sout
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . V. There are a town-hall; the Vic-toria Hall, erected in 1865 for lectnres, concerts, andpublic meetings; a post office, with money order, sav-ings bank, and telegraph departments ; branches of theBank of Scotland and Union Bank ; a savings bank, and8 insurance agencies; gas-works; 3 hotels; a choral union;and agricultural and horticultural societies. Placesof worship are the parish church (built 1780 ; enlarged1838; and seating 900), a Free church, and 2 (North and South) ; and the Madras Esta-blished school and North and South public schools,with respective accommodation for 127, 194, and 135children, had (1879) an average attendance of 103, 129,and 102, and grants of £80, 15s., £121_, 5s. 6d., and£86, 9s. The industrial works comprise a printingoffice, a bleachfield, an extensive distillery, 2 malt kilns,a scale-beam and weighing-machine factory, 3 sa^^Tuills,and 5 linen factories. The Aveaving of diapers, hucka-backs, sheetings, etc. (chiefly by handloom), has long. Seal of Auchtermuchtj. been the staple industry, but since 1817 has been carriedon less by resident manufacturers than for houses inKirkcaldy, Dunfermline, Dundee, Glasgow, and Aber-deen ; there are now some 600 looms in the town, and200 more in the parish. Burgh valuation (1881) £ of royal burgh (1871) 1082, (1881) 824; of town(1841) 2394, (1861) 2438, (1871) 2195, (1881) 1673. The parish, which also contains the village of DuN-SHELT, is bounded N by Perthshire, E by Collessie, Sby Falkland and Strathmiglo, AV by Strathmiglo andAbernethy. Its length from NW to SE is 4| miles ; itsgreatest breadth from E to W is 2g miles ; and its areais 3533 acres, of which 3^ are water. Three streamsflow eastward—Beggars Burn along most of the northernboundary, Barroway Burn through the southern interior,and the river Eden, near or upon the southern bor-der ; and from this last
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