PARNEY, burn, crossed by double-arched viaduct, one arch above the other, at about 2 miles north-north-east of Auchterarder, Perthshire.
PARSONS, wooded lake, with ruins, in Kilninver parish, Argyleshire.
PARSONS, medicinal spring, near Park, in Drumoak parish, Aberdeenshire.
PARSON'S-GREEN, small suburb, adjacent to north gate of Queen's Park, Edinburgh. Pop. 120.
PARTICK, suburban police burgh, on right side of the Kelvin, adjacent to western extremity of Glasgow city. It stands from 2 to 9 furlongs south-west of Glasgow New University ; was, till a recent period, anisolated,unimportant village ; contained, in the Romish times, a residence of the Archbishops of Glasgow ; retains extensive flour-mills, on ground given to the Glasgow bakers for aids rendered at the battle of Langside; includes a small dingy ancient portion, but consists chiefly of airy modern streets, with numerous outsorting villas ; is partly traversed by a viaduct of Stobcross branch railway ; communicates with the city and Whiteinch by tramway cars ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Glasgow, 3 banking offices, a spacious town-hall of 1872, 2 Established churches, 2 Free churches, 3 United Presbyterian churches, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches, an academy, and 3 public primary schools. The churches are all modern ; several are steepled and ornamental ; and one of the Free, one of the Established, and the Methodist were built in respectively 1879, 1877, and 1881. Pop. with Whiteinch, 27,394.
PARTON, village and parish near centre of Kirkcudbrightshire. The village stands on the Dee, 7 miles north-north-west of Castle-Douglas, and has a post office designated of Kirkcudbrightshire, a railway station, a parochial church with 418 sit-tings, and a public school with about 77 scholars. The parish contains also Corsock village, measures about 6f miles by 5, and comprises 15,841 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 10,155. Pop. 716. The surface is very uneven, includes a considerable ridge about 4 miles long, and, to the extent of more than one-third, is chiefly heath and moss. Five landowners are resident. The chief antiquities are two ditch-encircled artificial mounds, two cairns, remains of a Caledonian stone circle, and ruins of Corsock Castle. A quoad sacra parochial church and a Free church are at Corsock.
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PATAVIEG, small lake in llosskecn parish, Ross-shire.
PATERSON, dangerous insulated rock, fully a mile in circuit, about li mile east-by-south of Sanda Island, off so'uth-eastern extremity of Kintyre, Argyleshire.
PATH, place, with public school, in Minnijraff parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
PATHHEAD, suburban town adjacent to north-east end of Kirkcaldy, Fife. It has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, under Kirkcaldy, a banking office, a quoad sacra parochial church, 2 Free churches, an Evangelical Union church, and a public school with about 440 scholars, and was designed in June 1882 to have a neat new town hall. Pop. of the town, 2871; of the quoad sacra parish, 3930.
PATHHEAD, village on the Tyne, 5 miles south-east of Dalkeith, Edinburghshire. It adjoins Ford, with post office under Dalkeith, and United Presbyterian church; and it has a grand five-arched bridge. Pop. 583.
PATHHEAD, village, contiguous to New Cumnock village, in New Cumnock parish, Ayrshire. Pop. 532.
PATHHEAD, seat near Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire.
PATH-OF-CONDIE, village, 4 miles east-south-east of Dunning, Perthshire. It has a post office under Bridge of Earn, a United Presbyterian church, and a public school with about 40 scholars.
PATIEMUIR, village in Dunfermline parish, Fife.
PATIE'S MILL, place near Galston, Ayrshire.
PATNA, village and quoad sacra parish, on north border of Carrick, Ayrshire. The village stands on the Doon, 9^ miles south-east of Ayr, is maintained chiefly by mining of coal and ironstone, and. has a post office with money order department under Ayr, a railway station, Established and United Presbyterian churches, and an endowed school. Pop. 603. The parish was constituted in 1877. Pop. 1179.
PATRICKHOLM, seat near Larkhall, Lanarkshire.
PATTAIG, alpine stream, running from Benaulder forest to head of Loch Laggan, Inverness-shire. It expands, about mid-way of its course, into a considerable lake.
PAUL (ST.), quoad sacra parish, with Established and Free churches, in Dundee. Pop. 7051.
PAUL (ST.), parish in Perth. Pop. 3009.
PAUL (ST.), parish, with Established and Free churches, in north of Glasgow. Pop. quoad sacra, 6622.
PAUL YARD, burn in Walston parish, Lanarkshire.
PAVILION, marine seat of Earl of Eglinton, in Ardrossan, Ayrshire.
PAVILION, seat on left bank of the Tweed, in Melrose parish, Roxburghshire.
PAXTON, viUage on the Whitadder, 5 miles west of Berwick. It has a post office under Berwick, and is believed to be the scene of the song ' Robin Adair. ' Paxton House, in its vicinity, is a fine edifice of latter part of last century. Pop. 240.
PEARSIE, seat in Kingoldrum parish, Forfar shire.
PEASE-DEAN, deep, wooded, romantic ravine in Cockburnspath parish, Berwickshire. It was regarded, in the times of the international wars, as a strong defence against invasion by the English ; it could then be crossed only by difficult zigzag paths ; and it is now crossed by a bridge 300 feet long and 127 feet high, and by a railway viaduct 120 feet high.
