DELVORICH, village in Kilmadock parish, Perthshire.
DEN.
DEN, village in Dairy parish, Ayrshire. Pop. 995.
DENBRAE, seat near St. Andrews, Fife.
DENEND, village in Newtyle parish, Forfarshire.
DENFENELLA, romantic ravine, with cascade of 65 feet, spanned by lofty, handsome bridge, in St. Cyrus parish, Kincardineshire.
DENHEAD, hamlet in Cameron parish, Fife. It has a post office tinder St. Andrews, and a public school with about 47 scholars.
DENHEAD, hamlet in Logie-Buchan parish, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Ellon, and a public school with about 79 scholars.
DENHEAD, village a short distance west of Dundee.
DENHOLM, village adjacent to the Teviot, 5 miles north-east of Hawick, Roxburghshire. It stands on a plateau, adjoins a picturesque wooded dell, includes a spacious square, and has a post office with all departments under Hawick, water-works of 1874, an obeliskal monument to the poet Leyden, a Free church, and a public school with about 187 scholars. Pop. 592.
DENINO.
DENMILL, village a short distance west of Dundee.
DENMILL, ruined ancient castellated seat, 1 mile south-east of Newburgh, Fife.
DENNIS, headland in north-east of North Ronaldshay, Orkney.
DENNISTON, suburb, 1 mile east-by-north of Royal Exchange, Glasgow. It was founded in 1860 ; consists of handsome streets and fine villas in symmetrical arrangement ; presents a pleasant aspect, strongly contrasted to that of neighbouring suburbs ; stands in near vicinity to Alexandra Park; communicates by tramway with most parts of the city ; and contains a Romanesque Established church of 1877, a neat steepled Free church of about 1870, and a costly Italian United Presbyterian church of 1878.
DENNISTON, suburb of Dumbarton.
DENNY, town and parish in south-east of Stirlingshire. The town stands on river Carron, at terminus of branch railway, 7^ miles by road, but 13J by railway, south-by-east of Stirling ; was only a hamlet in latter part of last century ; is now a considerable and prosperous seat of manufacture ; comprises parts more or less old and recent within Denny parish, and a large suburb within Dunipace ; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 2 banking offices, several good inns, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic churches, and a public school with about 221 scholars. The U.P. church was reconstructed in 1881 at a cost of about 12,000. Pop. of town proper, 2823; of town and suburbs, 4080. The parish contains also Denny-Loanhead, Parkfoot, Longcroft, and Fankerton villages, most of Hollandbush and Haggs, and part of Bonnybridge. Its length is 6 miles ; its breadth about 4 miles ; its area 8309 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 24,508. Pop. , quoad civilia, 5728 ; quoad sacra, 3464. A hill-ridge extends through the centre from east to west ; slopes, with some undulations, go thence to the Carron on the north, and to the Bonny on the south; and Darrach Hill rises abruptly and prominently on the western border. Coal and ironstone are worked. A chief seat is Myothill, and chief antiquities are sites of Caledonian camps. Established churches are at Haggs and Bonnybridge, and a United Presbyterian church is at Denny-Loanhead. 4 schools for 792 scholars are within the parish, and 3 of them for 650 are new.
DENNYBRIDGE, suburb or section of Denny, Stirlingshire.
DENNYFERN, remains of ancient castle in Lethnot parish, Forfarshire.
DENNY-LOANHEAD, village, 1J mile south of Denny, Stirlingshire. It has a post office under Denny, and a United Presbyterian church.
DENNYSTON.
DENOON, glen and site of old castle in Glammis parish, Forfarshire.
DENOVAN, village and mansion in northern vicinity of Denny, Stirlingshire.
DENSIDE, place, with public school, in Tannadice parish, Forfarshire.
DERCLEUCH, lake in Straiton parish, Ayrshire.
DERCULICH, seat and lake in Dull parish, Perthshire.
DERGAN, rivulet, running northward to Loch Creran, in Ardchattan parish, Argyleshire.
DERNAGLAR, lake, 4 miles east of Glenluce, "Wigtonshire.
DERNCONNER, village in Auchinleck parish, Ayrshire. Pop. 550.
DERNOCK.
DERVAIG, place in north of Mull Island, Argyleshire. It has a post office, with money order department, under Oban.
DESKFORD. parish averagely about 3J miles south of Cullen, Banff shire. It has a post office under Fochabers. Its length is about 5 miles ; its breadth about 3 miles ; its area 8155 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 4446. Pop. 849. The surface is a hill-screened valley, traversed northward by Deskford burn, and cut in the sides by ravines with small cascades, The parish gives the peerage title of baron to the Earl of Seafield, and contains the ruined residence of his ancestors. The churches are Established and Free. There are 2 schools for 207 scholars, and 1 of them for 175 is new.
