HECK, village in Lochmaben parish, Dumfriesshire.
HECLA.
HECLABOR, curious rock on west coast of Cross parish, Sanday Island, Orkney.
HEDDERWICK, seat near Dubton Junction railway station, Forfarshire.
HEISKER, island, 1\ miles west of middle coast of North Uist. Outer Hebrides. Pop. 111.
HEITON, village, 2J miles south-by-west of Kelso, Roxburghshire. It has a post office under Kelso.
HELDAZAY.
HELENSBURGH, town on north coast of Firth of Clyde, opposite Greenock, and 8 miles west-north-west of Dumbarton. It was founded in 1777; it enjoyed from the first remarkable advantages of plan and position; it took a first rank among watering-places at the era of steam navigation ; and it has steadily advanced in attractiveness and size. It adjoins the mouth of Gareloch ; stands partly on a belt of low ground along the beach, partly on gentle ascending skirt of broad-based hill-range; commands from all its area very fine views ; consists chiefly of a terrace fronting the beach, and spacious straight thoroughfares crossing one another at right angles; and abounds in villas, ornate cottages, garden plots, and shrubberies. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Glasgow, a terminal railway station, 3 banking offices, 2 hotels, a steamboat pier sold to the North British Company in 1876 for 10,000, municipal buildings of 1879, an obeliskal monument to Henry Bell, 2 Established churches of 1847 and 1880, 2 steepled Free churches of 1852 and 1860, a steepled United Presbyterian church of 1855, a Congregational church projected in 1881 in lieu of a previous one, an Episcopal church of 1869, a Roman Catholic church of 1880, 2 large public schools, a public library, and a fine bowling-green ; it publishes 2 weekly newspapers ; and it was designed in 1880 to acquire an extensive esplanade, public baths, aquarium, band-stand, and fountain. Its population at the census of 1881 was 7690 ; but that in the summer months was probably three times greater.
HELLISAY, island, 2J miles north-east of Barra, Outer Hebrides. Pop. 9.
HELLMOOR, lake, 9 miles south-west of Selkirk.
HELL'S CLEUGH, lofty mountain, with small cairn and extensive view, 9 miles west of Peebles.
HELL'S GLEN, deep, rugged, gloomy glen, 4 miles long, traversed by road from Lochgoilhead to Inverary, Argyleshire.
HELL'S LUM, curious large cavern on Gamrie coast, Banffshire.
HELL'S SKERRIES, cluster of islets, about 10 miles west of Rum, Inner Hebrides.
HELMSDALE, river and town on east side of Sutherland. The river draws head-streams from a number of mountain lakes ; traverses a glen overhung by high bleak uplands; runs 26 miles south-eastward to the sea at the town ; and is followed more than half-way by the Caithness and Sutherland Railway. The town stands on the coast, 17 miles east of Golspie ; comprises Helmsdale-proper, East Helmsdale, West Helmsdale, and Marrel; is the headquarters of a fishery district ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Sutherlandshire, a railway station, a good inn, a harbour, Established and Free churches, and 2 public schools with about 289 scholars. Pop. 711. Helmsdale Castle, adjacent to the town, was erected in 1488 by a Countess of Sutherland; was the death-place by poison of the eleventh Earl of Sutherland and his countess ; and is now a picturesque ruin.
HELSHETTER, place, with medicinal spring, in Reay parish, Caithness.
HELVELS.
HEMPRIGGS, seat and lake in Wick parish, Caithness.
HENDERLAND, ruined fortalice on Megget rivulet, south border of Peeblesshire, f mile from St. Mary's Loch. It belonged to the riever Percy Cockburn, and was the scene of the tragedy narrated in the well-known ' Lament of the Border Widow.'
HENDERSYDE, seat in Ednam parish, Roxburghshire.
HENMUIR, coal-field in Gladsmuir parish, Haddingtonshire.
HENRIETTATOWN, part of Avoch town, Ross-shire.
HENWOOD, strong natural fastness in Oxnam parish, Roxburghshire. It was a great retreat in the Border forays, and gave rise to the famous war-cry, 'A Hen woody. '
HEOGALAND, islet adjacent to Unst, Shetland.
HERBERTSHIRE, suburb of Denny, and ancient castle in that suburb's vicinity, Stirlingshire. North Herbertshire and South Herbertshire are divisions of Denny parish.
