BELFORD, hill, 1092 feet high, in Hou-naTii parish, Roxburghshire.
BELHAVEN, village and quoad sacra parish on east coast of Haddingtonshire. The village stands at head of small bay about a mile west of Dunbar, has a public school with about 66 scholars, and gives the peerage title of baron to a branch of the family of Hamilton. Pop. of the village, 434 ; of the quoad sacra parish, 1351.
BELHELVIE, parish on east coast of Aberdeenshire, averagely 7 miles north of Aberdeen. It contains the hamlets of Calmedie, Craigie, Wester Hatton, Menie, and Shiels, and has a post office of its own name under Aberdeen. It measures about (> miles by 5, and comprises 12,148 acres. Real property in 1880-81, 13,622. Pop. 1850. The coast is low and sandy ; the interior rises gradually, but is diversified with hillocks and low hill-ridges, and the western boundary is a continuous ridge about 800 feet high. The churches are Established, Free, and United Presbyterian. There are 5 schools for 399 scholars, and 3 of them, for 240, are new.
BELLA, head-stream of the Lugar, Ayrshire.
BELLABEG, seat in Strathdon parish, Aberdeenshire.
BELLADRUM, seat in Kiltarlity parish, Inverness-shire.
BELLAHOUSTON, quoad sacra parish, within Govan parish, in south-western outskirts of Glasgow. Pop. 6002. A handsome academy here, on Paisley Road, was erected in 1876.
BELLANOCH, place in North Knapdale parish, Argyleshire. It has a public school with about 80 scholars.
BELLEISLE, seat in Ayr parish, Ayrshire.
BELLEVILLE, seat in Alvie parish, Inverness-shire.
BELLEVUE, seat near Auchtermuchty, Fife.
BELLFIELD, suburban village between Stirling and St. Ninians, Stirlingshire.
BELLFIELD, seat near Kirknewton, Etlinburghshire.
BELLFIELD, seat near Kilmarnock, Ayrshire.
BELLFIELD, seat near Cupar, Fife.
BELLIE, parish, containing the post town of Fochabers, in Elginshire, and the villages of Auchinhalrig, Dallachy, Bog-moor, and Tugnet, in Banffshire. Its length is nearly 6 miles, its greatest breadth nearly 4 miles. Acres in Elginshire, 4875; in Banffshire, 8337. Real pmprrty in 1880-81, '3848 and 5631. I'"]'., quoad civilia, 2365; quoad sacra, J047. The river Spey bounds the west, and the Moray Firth bounds the north. The Spey here has, at different periods, shifted much westward from its original channel, and the land over which it has receded forms a considerable portion of the parochial area. Gordon Castle, a seat of the Duke of Richmond, is a chief feature. The old parochial church stood till 1797, about a mile north of Gordon Castle, but the present parochial church, and other places of worship, are in Fochabers. A very fine free school, erected in 1846, also is in Fochabers ; and Bellie public school has about 176 scholars.
BELL ROCK, reef, with lighthouse, 12 miles south-by-east of Arbroath, Forfarshire. The lighthouse was erected in 1807-11, at a cost of 60,000, and shows a revolving light visible at the distance of 15^ nautical miles.
BELLRORY, hill in Glentanner section of Aboyne parish, Aberdeenshire.
BELLSHILL. town, 9 miles byroad south-east of Glasgow. It prospers in connection with the working of rich neighbouring mines ; and it has a post office, with money order department, under Glasgow, a railway station, a banking office, a new quoad sacra parish church, a Free church, a United Presbyterian church, an Evangelical Union chapel, and a public school with about 173 scholars. Pop. of the town, 2760 ; of the quoad sacra parish, 3334.
BELLSHILL, MOTHERWELL, AND WISHAW RAILWAY. This was projected by an independent company ; it received the sanction of the Standing Orders Committee in Jan. 1880, and it was designed to strike from the North British at Bellshill station, to traverse a rich mineral district by way of Motherwell to "Wishaw, and to give direct communication thence with the east of Glasgow.
BELLSIDE, station for Omoa, on Cleland branch of Caledonian Railway, Lanarkshire. An Established church near it was projected in 1877.
BELLSMAJNS, hamlet in Borthwick parish, Edinburghshire.
BELLSQUARRY, village in Midcalder parish, Edinburghshire. It has a public school with about 96 scholars.
BELLSTOWN, hamlet in Methven parish, Perthshire.
BELLWOOD, seat in Glencorse vale, Edinburghshire.
BELLWOOD, seat on face of Kinnoul Hill, fronting Perth.
BELLYCONE, village in Madderty parish, Perthshire.
BELMADUTHY, seat of Sir Evan Mackenzie, Bart., in Knockbaiii parish, Ross-shire.
BELMONT, seat near Corstorphine, Edinburghshire.
BELMONT, seat near Uyeasound, Unst Island, Shetland.
BELMONT CASTLE, seat of the Earl of Wharneliffe, near Meikle, Perthshire.
BELNABOTH, place, with ruined ancient chapel, in Towie parish, Aberdeenshire.
BELNAGOAK, hill in Methlick parish, Aberdeenshire.
BELRETIRO, seat on west side near foot of Loch Lomond, Dumbartonshire.
BELSES, village, with railway station, 7* miles north-north-east of Hawick, Roxburghshire.
