BAYHEAD, suburb of Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.
BEACON, conical hill in Bressay Island, Shetland.
BEALACH-NAMBO, natural terrace, on north shoulder of Benvenue, about 800 feet above Loch Katrine, Perthshire.
BEANOCH, lake, 3 miles north-east of Lochinver, Sutherland.
BEARSDEN, village, 5 miles north-north-west of Glasgow. It has a post office, with telegraph, under Glasgow, and a railway station. Pop. 764.
BEATH, parish, containing the post office village of Cowdenbeath, the villages of Hill of Beath and Oakfield, and most of the village of Kelty, in west of Fife. Its length is about 4 miles, its breadth about 3 miles, its area 6345 acres. Heal property in 1880-81, 21,493. Pop. 5442. The surface is hilly, rugged, and diversified. Beath Hill, on the south-western boundary, has a beautiful appearance, and commands an extensive view. Coal abounds, and is largely worked. The churches are Established and Free, the latter at Kelty. There are 3 public schools, all new, for 1150 scholars.
BEATTOCK, railway station, 2 miles south-south-west of Moffat, and 61^ south-by-west of Edinburgh. It has neat offices and a hotel, and is adjacent to the post office village of Craigielands. A railway from it to Moffat was begun to be formed in December 1881.
BEAUFORT CASTLE, seat of Lord Lovat, 4 miles south-west of Beauly, Inverness-shire. A previous castle on its site was besieged by the English in 1303, seized and injured by Oliver Cromwell, and utterly destroyed after the battle of Culloden.
BEAULY, river, sea-loch, and village, on north-west border of Inverness-shire. The river is formed by union of the Glass and the Farrar ; runs windingly about 10 miles north-eastward to head of the sea-loch, and is notable for its falls of Kilmorack. The sea-loch forms part of the boundary between Inverness-shire and Ross-shire ; extends 7 miles eastward, with maximum breadth of 2 miles ; and connects, by strait of Kessock ferry, with head of Moray Firth. Tbf> village stands on the river near influx to the loch, 10 miles west of Inverness ; is old, modernized, and well-built, and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 2 banking offices, a harbour, 2 hotels, ruins of a priory of 1230, an Established church, a Free church, a Roman Catholic chapel, and a public school with about 143 scholars. Pop. 903.
BEAUMONT, rivulet of east border of Roxburghshire, running 10 miles northward there, and passing into England to the Till.
BEDLAY, old fortalice, quondam seat of the Earls of Kilmariiock, near Chryston, Lanarkshire.
BEDLORMIE, old fortalice in Torphichen parish, Linlithgowshire.
BEDRULE, hamlet and parish in centre of Roxburghshire. The hamlet lies on Rule river, 3J miles south-west of Jedburgh, and includes the parochial church, and remains of the old castle of the Turnbulls. The parish contains 2 other small hamlets, and its post town is Jedburgh. Acres, 3917. Real property in 1880-81, 4459. Pop. 269. The surface includes part of Dunian Mountain, and part of alluvial tracts on the Teviot. The public school has about 58 scholars.
BEE, large irregular sea-loch in north of South Uist Island, Outer Hebrides.
BEECHFIELD, place near Meikle Garnock, Hamilton parish , Lanarkshire. It has a public school of 1876 for 150 scholars.
BEECHWOOD, a seat of Sir Sidney Dun das, Bart., in Corstorphine parish, Edinburghshire.
BEECHWOOD, seat in St. Vigeans parish, Forfarshire.
BEECHWOOD, seat in Kettins parish, Forfarshire.
BEESWING, place near Killywhan rail-way station, Kirkcudbrightshire. It has a post office under Dumfries.
BEG, sea-loch, branching from Loch Bracadale, Isle of Skye.
BEGLIE (WICKS OF), hill-pass, with grand view, 3J miles west of Abernethy, Perthshire.
BEIL, seat and village in Stenton parish, Haddingtonshire.
BEITH, town in Ayrshire, and parish partly also in Renfrewshire. The town stands on an eminence near a railway junction, 11 miles south-west-by-south of Paisley ; dates, with slight exception, from times subsequent to the Revolution ; carries on a variety of manufactures ; and has a head post office with all departments, a railway station, 3 banking offices, a hotel, a town hall, a parochial church, a Free church, 2 United Presbyterian churches, an Evangelical Union chapel, an industrial school, and 2 public schools. Pop. 4037. The parish contains also the villages of Barrmill, Gateside, and Burnhouse, and part of the village of Langbar. Acres in Ayrshire, 10,678 ; in Renfrewshire, 544. Real property in 1880-81, 31,034, and 637. Pop. 6555. A hill-ridge, with summits of from 500 to 600 feet above sea-level, extends along the north-east border; the land declines and undulates thence to the west and south-west ; and the narrow strath traversed by Glasgow and Ayr Railway, from Paisley to Kilwinning, attains its highest point in the west, at only about 95 feet above sea-level. Caldwell and Woodside are chief seats, and Giffen Castle was long conspicuous, but fell in 1838. There are 8 schools for 1069 scholars, and 1 of them and class-rooms for 459 are new.
BELCHESTER, seat in Eccles parish, Berwickshire.
BELDCRAIG, dell, 3 miles east-nortb east of Moffat, Dumfriesshire.
