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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| KINROSS ( town) | 022 | [ continued from previous page] north which this passes through the town. Kinross has in recent times undergone many extensive improvements and the building of handsome new houses in the main street and otherwise and now possesses a large splendid Inn at the north extremity of the town which for appearance and accommodation is perhaps not surpassed in Scotland. This Inn is now occupied as a private residence. The parish church which stands near the centre of the town is a plain edifice, an ordinary steeple. The Town Hall occupies the site of this church but the steeple is still standing. As the capital of the county the courts of the sheriff sit in Kinross and justice of the peace courts are held at stated periods. The [--] is undistinguished by manufacturies and the chief trade of the working classes is the weaving of linen and cotton goods. Kinross is entitled to hold four fairs annually " Chamber's Gazetteer The town is situated in the centre of the highway between the Northferry and Perth. Tis the head burgh of the shire and was erected in a burgh of barony with a fair every year on the 18th Oct by James Earl of Mortoun and Regent of Scotland. reg Jacob V1.Sibbald's Hist of Fife & Kinross There is no place known to the inhabitants as the "Vale of Kinross" . It must have been a poetical license taken by the writer in Chamber's Gazetteer Kinross is not a Burgh of Barony as stated in Sibballd Hist. It has no focal Government but Bailie Baron courts are held there. Mr Baird is constituted Bailie of the Barony by Sir Graham Montgomery and his Magisterial Authority in that capacity extends over the parishes Cleish,Kinross, Portmoak, Orwell and part of Tullibole. |
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