CROMARTYSHIRE, county, comprehending Ardmeanach, Coigach, most of northern acclivity of Strathpeffer, and several small tracts, all detached from one another, some of them at wide distances, the whole so interspersed with Ross-shire as to be identified for almost every practical purpose with that county.
CROMBIE, small headland, harbour, village, and estate, in old parish now united to Torryburn, in Fife.
CROMBIE, old castle, now of three storeys, but formerly much higher, in Marnoch parish, Banft'shire.
CROMBIE, burn in Kingoldrum parish, For fars hire.
CROMDALE, parish containing Grantown, and intersected by the Spey, in Elginshire. Part of it, prior to 1870, was in Inverness-shire. It has a post office of its own name designated of Morayshire, and a railway station. Its length is 17 miles ; its extreme breadth 10 miles. Real property in 1880-81, 11,926. Pop., quoad civilia, 3642; quoad sacra, 1145. Low grounds lie adjacent to the Spey ; sloping wooded hills rise on the north ; and the mountain range called Cromdale Hill occupies the south. The low grounds, known and sung as the Haughs of Cromdale, were the scene of a famous skirmish in 1690. The only mansion is Castle-Grant, a seat of the Earl of Seafield ; and the chief antiquities are the ruined castles of Muckerach and Lochindorb. The churches are 2 Established, a Free, and a Baptist. There are 7 schools for 802 scholars, and 3 of them and an enlargement for 350 are new. A suspension passenger bridge was erected in 1881.
CROMLIX, place, with 2 mineral springs, If mile north of Dunblane, Perthshire.
CROMORE, harbour in mouth of Loch Erisort,east coast of Lewis, Outer Hebrides.
CROMWELL PARK, village on Almond river, in Redgorton parish, Perthshire.
CROMWELL'S MOUNT, small mound in Broxmouth Park, near Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. Oliver Cromwell stood on it when directing the advance to the battle of Dunbar.
CRONA, flat islet, adjoining Oldney, in Assynt parish, Sutherland.
CRONBERRY, village in Auchinleck parish, Ayrshire. Pop. 799.
CROOK, hamlet in Alves parish, Elginshire.
CROOK, place on the Tweed, 15 miles south-west of Peebles. It has a post office under Biggar, and an inn.
CROOK, affluent of the North Esk, in Forfarshire.
CROOKEDHOLM, suburb of Hurlford, Ayrshire. It has a large spinning-mill, and a large public school. Pop. 657.
CROOKHOLM, seat in Canonbie parish, Dumfriesshire.
CROOK OF DEVON, small ancient village, with railway station, contiguous to sharp turn of the river Devon, 6 miles west of Kinross.
CROOKSTON, ruined castle, 3 miles south-east of Paisley, Renfrewshire. It belonged to the Lennox branch of the Stewarts, and is believed to have been the scene of Lord Darnley's betrothment to
CROOKSTON, seat on the Gala, 5|- miles north-north-west of Stow, Edinburghshire.
CROSBY, ancient chapelry in Monkton parish, Ayrshire. Its burying-ground and remains of its church still exist.
CROSS, quoad sacra parish within Barvas quoad civilia parish in Lewis, Outer Hebrides. It has 2 churches, Established and Free. Pop. 2725.
CROSS, affluent of Luce river, Wigtonshire.
CROSSAIG, rivulet and seat in Saddell parish, Kintyre, Argyleshire.
CROSS AND BURNESS, parish in north of Orkney. It comprehends the south-western and north-western limbs of Sanday Island and all North Ronaldshay. Pop., quoad civilia, 1677 ; quoad sacra, 1130. Churches are in both Sanday and North Ronaldshay, and public schools are in both Cross and Burness.
CROSS ARTHURLEE, suburb of Barrhead, in Renfrewshire.
CROSSBANK, seat near Crossford, Lanarkshire.
CROSSBASKET, seat in East Kilbride parish, Lanarkshire.
CROSSBOST, place in Lochs parish,Lewis, Outer Hebrides. It has a post office under Stornoway, and a Free church of 1882.
