PRESTONGRANGE, estate adjacent to south-west end of Prestonpans, Haddingtonshire. It belonged to the monks of Newbattle ; brought them much wealth from salt-making and coal-mining ; passed to the baronet family of Suttie ; was sold in 1875 to a company, that they might work and export its minerals ; and has now, at Morrison's Haven, a harbour, enlarged and improved by them at a cost of 10,000.
PRESTONHALL, seat near Preston village. Edinburghshire.
PRESTONHALL, seat in Cupar parish, Fife.
PRESTONHOLM, village in Cockpen parish, Edinburghshire.
PRESTONKIRK, parish, containing East Linton town and Preston suburb, in Haddingtonshire. It has a head post office with money order and telegraph departments ; and it measures about 7 miles by 4, and comprises 7058 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 18,615. Pop. 1929. The surface is bisected by the Tyne, includes Traprain-Law, and is elsewhere little diversified. Chief seats are Smeaton, Phantassie, and Beanston; and the chief antiquity is Hailes Castle. The churches are Established, Free, and United Presbyterian ; and there are 4 schools with capacity for 351 scholars.
PRESTONMILL, hamlet in Kirkbean parish, Kirkcudbrightshire.
PRESTONPANS, town and parish on west coast of Haddingtonshire. The town stands J mile north-north-west of railway station of its own name, at 9J miles east of Edinburgh ; extends about a mile along the shore ; was long famous for vast manufacture of salt; is now notable for oysters obtained in vicinity of its quondam saltpans, and thence called Pandoor or Pandore oysters ; consists chiefly of one dingy crooked street, with grimy remains of its saltpans ; and has a post office, with money order and telegraph departments, designated of Haddingtonshire, a parochial church of 1774, a Free church of 1878, and a public school of 1881 erected at a cost of 3000. Pop. 1610. The parish contains also Preston and Dolphintoii villages and Morrison's Haven. Its length is fully 2 miles; its greatest breadth 1| mile ; its area 1291 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 12,341. Pop. 2573. The shore is low and sandy, but is faced with low shattered reefs, and the interior is mostly low and flat. Coal has been worked from an early period, and continues to be productive. Prestonpans battlefield of 1745 lies partly within the eastern border, and partly south-eastward thence toward Tranent.
PRESTWICK, town and ancient parish on coast of Kyle, Ayrshire. The town stands 2 miles north of Ayr, dates from very early times, and has a post office, with money order department, designated of Ayrshire, an ancient market cross, a steepled modern town hall, and a ruined ancient church. Pop. 1064. The parish is now united to Monkton.
PRESTWICK (NEW), village, J mile south of Prestwick, Ayrshire. Pop. 734.
PRIEST, island, 13 miles west-north-west of Ullapool, Ross-shire.
PRIESTHAUGH, vale and ancient hill-fort in upper part of Cavers parish, Roxburghshire.
PRIESTHILL, place, famous in history of the Covenanters, about 3| miles north-east of Muirkirk, Ayrshire. It contained the domicile of the martyr John Brown, shot by Claverhouse ; and it now contains a monument to his memory.
PRIESTHOPE, glen in Innerleithen parish, Peeblesshire.
PRIESTINCH, low precipitous hill, three-fourths engirt by bog, and formerly crowned with rude fortification, on south border of Abercorn parish, Linlithgowshire.
PRIESTLAW, estate, with large, strong, oval ancient camp, in south-east extremity of Whittingham parish, Haddingtonshire.
PRIEST'S BURN, brook, running to Lindores Loch, in north-east corner of Fife. It flows in the greatest drought, and never freezes in the keenest frost.
PRIEST'S CRAIG, rocky height, contiguous to Loch Ard, in south-west corner of Perthshire.
PRIEST'S CRAIG, fresh-water weU and rocky height on Rathven coast, Banffshire.
PRIEST'S CROWN, place, where Roman relics have been found, in Eckford parish, Roxburgh shire.
PRIEST'S ISLE, wooded islet, with re-mains of priest's dwelling, in lower part of Loch Awe, Argyleshire.
PRIEST'S ISLE, Ross-shire.
PRIMSIDE, lake about a mile west of Yetholm, Roxburghshire.
PRINCE CHARLES' CAVE, cave, 2 miles north of mouth of Loch Portree, on east coast of Isle of Skye. It gave shelter to Prince Charles Edward in 1746, and it displays beautiful stalactites.
PRINCE CHARLES' CAVE, cave near middle of east side of Loch Scavaig, in Isle of Skye. It gave shelter to Prince Charles Edward in 1746.
PRINCE'S CAVE, cave near middle of east coast of South Uist Island, Outer Hebrides. It gave shelter to Prince Charles Edward for some days in 1746.
PRINLAWS, suburb of Leslie, Fife. Pop. 1253.
PRINTFIELD, manufacturing village on the Dee, near Aberdeen.
PRIOR-BANK, seat near Melrose, Roxburghshire.
PRIOSMHEALL, hill in Bracadale parish, Isle of Skye.
PROAIG, small bay near middle of east coast of Islay Island, Argyleshire.
PROCRIBE, burn in Muirkirk parish, Ayrshire.
PROSEN, small river, running about 1(5 miles south-eastward to the South Esk at 3 miles north-north-east of Kirriemuir, in Forfarshire. The upper and middle parts of its basin are the deep glen, called from it Glenprosen, among the Benchinnan Mountains.
