AUCHLOCHAN, seat near Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire.
AUCHLOSSEN, lake in Lumphanan and Aboyne parishes, Aberdeenshire.
AUCHLUNIES, seat in Maryculter parish, Kincardineshire. .
AUCHLUNKART, seat in Boharm parish, Banff shire. ...
AUCHMEDDEN, estate, with public school, and with reach of bold coast, in Aberdour parish, Aberdeenshire.
AUCHMILL, town, with large quarries of fine granite, 3 miles north-west of Aberdeen. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Aberdeen. Pop. 1319.
AUCHMILLAN, village, 2 miles north of Mauchline, Ayrshire.
AUCHMITHIE, fishing village, 3 miles north-east of Arbroath, Forf arshire. It has u post office under Arbroath, a chapel-of-ease, and an ingenious water supply provided in 1880. A range of bold cliffs pierced with caves is contiguous, and figures as the scene of the escape of Sir Arthur and Miss Wardour in Sir Walter Scott s Antiquary. A large quantity of old coins and metal tokens was discovered in the neighbouring beach in 1877. Pop. of the village, 359.
AUCHMORE, a seat of the Earl of Breadalbane, at the head of Loch Tay, Perthshire.
AUCHMORE, place, with public school, in Lochalsh parish, Ross-shire.
AUCHMUTY, hamlet in Markinch parish, Fife.
AUCHNACARRY.
AUCHNACRAIG.
AUCHNAGATT, place, 7 miles north of Ellon, Aberdeenshire. It has a post office under Ellon, and a railway station.
AUCHNASHEEN, place, 28| miles west of Dingwall, Ross-shire. It has a post office, designated Auchnasheen, Ross-shire ; a railway station, and a hotel.
AUCHNASHELLACH, place, 12 miles south-west of Auchnasheen, Ross-shire. It has a post office under Lochcarron, and a railway station.
AUCHRY, seat in Monquhitter parish Aberdeenshire.
AUCHTERARDER, town and parish in south-east of Perthshire. The town stands about a mile from a railway station of its own name, 14 miles south-west of Perth ; dates from ancient times, and was once a royal burgh ; passed through long declension and much disaster, but eventually became a prosperous seat of manufacture ; figured in the first and not the least of the church conflicts which led to the Disruption of 1843 ; comprises a main street upwards of ;i mile long, and has a head post office with all departments, 2 banking offices, 2 hotels, a towered town-hall of 1872, Established, Free, United Presbyterian, and Evangelical Union churches, and 2 public schools. Pop. 2666. The parish contains also Aberuthven, Smithyhaugh, and Borland-Park villages, and measures nearly 8 miles in length and about 3 miles in breadth. Acres, 11,181. Real erty in 1880-81, 19,452. Pop. 3648. northern section undulates or declines to the river Earn, and is nearly all arable; and the southern section rises toward the summit line of the Ochil Hills. Chief seats are Auchterarder Castle and Auchterarder House ; and a chief antiquity is the fragment of a strong castle of Malcolm Canmore. There are 5 schools for 671 scholars, and2of them,for 360,are new.
AUCHTERDERRAN, parish, containing most of Lochgelly town, and part of Cardenden village, in south-west of Fife. It measures about 5 miles by 3, and com-prises 7818 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 19,295. Pop., quoad civilia, 4332 ; quoad sacra, 1747. The surface is beautified by Lochgelly Lake, and about 500 acres of wood, and includes variously flat ground, valley, and hill. The churches are Established, Free, and United Presbyterian. There are 3 public schools for 1067 scholars, and 1 of them and an enlargement for 510 are new.
AUCHTERGAVEN, vulgarly OCHTER-GAEN, village and parish in Strathtay district, Perthshire. The village stands about 3 miles north-west of Stanley rail-way station, and 9 north-north-west of Perth, and is a straggling place. The parish contains also the post office village of Bankfoot, the villages of Cairniehill and "Waterloo, and most of the post office village of Stanley. Its length is 10 miles ; its mean breadth is about 3 miles ; and its area is 12,941 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 15,048. Pop. 2195. The surface rises from the Tay, up Strathardie, to the summit of a low range of the Grampians, and consists chiefly of swelling knolls and sloping ridges. The seats are Stanley House, Airleywight, and Tullybelton. The poet Nicol was a native, and sang the beauties of the landscape in his ' Bonnie Ordie Braes.' The churches are the parochial, with nearly 1200 sittings, 2 Free, and a United Presbyterian. There are 2 public schools for 550 scholars, and 1 of them and an enlargement for 450 are new.
AUCHTERHOUSE, village and parish on south-west border of Forfarshire. The village stands 7 miles by road, but much farther by railway, north-west of Dundee, and has a post office, with telegraph, under Dundee, and a railway station. The parish measures about 4 by 3| miles, and com-prises 5708 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 10,366. Pop. 661. The surface rises from the narrow vale of Dighty water, northward to summits of the Sidlaw Hills, is diversified by undulating heights, and becomes steep and precipitous in the north. The chief residences are Auchterhouse and Balbouchly, the former an old seat of the Earl of Airlie ; and the chief antiquity is the fragment of a strong baronial fortalice, said to have been visited by Sir William Wallace. There are 2 public schools, male and female, -with about 77 and 53 scholars.
