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Banffshire

(Encyclopedia)Banffshire or Banff, former county, NE Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, Banffshire became (1975) part of the new Grampian region. In the local government reorganization of 1996, Gramp...

Scotia

(Encyclopedia)Scotia skōˈshə [key], originally the Latin name for Ireland. In the Middle Ages, it was used to refer to Scotland, to which the Scots had migrated from Ireland. Today it is used poetically. ...

Cupar

(Encyclopedia)Cupar ko͞oˈpər [key], town, Fife, Scotland. Cupar was a royal burgh in 1356; it remains th...

Clydebank

(Encyclopedia)Clydebank, town, West Dunbartonshire, W central Scotland, on the north bank of the Clyde River. The chief industry until the 1970s was shipbuilding. The...

Awe, Loch

(Encyclopedia)Awe, Loch lŏkh ô [key], lake, 25 mi (40 km) long, Argyll and Bute, W Scotland; 118 ft (36 m) above sea level. The hydroelectric power facility at Cruachan (completed 1967) has a 400,000-kW capacity....

Galashiels

(Encyclopedia)Galashiels gălˌəshēlzˈ [key], town, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, on the Gala Water. Famous for ...

Kinross-shire

(Encyclopedia)Kinross-shire or Kinross, former county, E Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, Kinross-shire became (1975) part of the new Tayside region. In the local government reorganization of 1996,...

Stonehaven

(Encyclopedia)Stonehaven, town (1991 pop. 8,000), Aberdeenshire, E Scotland, on the North Sea. A resort town, its products include whisky and leather and woolen goods. Fishing is important. Nearby are the notable r...

Wodrow, Robert

(Encyclopedia)Wodrow, Robert wo͝odˈrō [key], 1679–1734, Scottish ecclesiastical historian. His principal work is The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution (...

Lyonnesse

(Encyclopedia)Lyonnesse līˈənĕsˌ [key], once a region W of Cornwall, now sunk beneath the sea more than 40 fathoms deep. The Lyonnesse of Celtic legend, the home of Tristram and of the Lady of Lyones, has been...