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Parish of Cawdor.................................................................................... -- Examiners replies to each of the underlined portions
............................................................................................................... -- Sir
Extracts from New Statistical Account Printed 1842
The first Recorded name of this parish appears to have been "Barewen"
or "Bariven"; Ewan being the saint to whose tutelar protection it was
entrusted, and Bar, probably a corruption of Brae, as the Old Church,
the walls of which are still extant, is situated in the upper and hilly..................... -- Shown as St. Barevan's
part of the parish. For several hundred years, however, the parish, as ................ -- Church
such, has been known as Calder or Cawdor. The former is the mode of pro-
nouncing the word, common among the Gaelic part of the population now;
and apparently from a remote period; but it was known as Cawdor both
to Hector Boece, the historian, and Shakspeare, and so was adopted as the
family title, when, in 1796, the present noble family of Cawdor was elevated
to the Peerage.
Though the parish of Croy claims some detached portions on the south............... -- For boundaries of the
of the Nairn, this river may be considered the northern boundary of the.............. -- parish Vide Examin-
parish of Cawdor. The length of the parish from west to east, along this river........ -- ation Traces of it
is between 3 & 4 miles. Its breadth is very irregular, in some places not above
a mile, in others 4 and 5 miles, while one offset stretches southward across
the Findhorn River to a distance of more than 16 miles.
Hydrography:- The only river in the parish, if we except the Findhorn.................. -- "River Findhorn"
which cuts through a narrow and remote neck of land to the south, is.................. -- Written
the small but often impetuous and destructive river called the Nairn.................... -- "River Nairn" Shewn
which falls into the sea about 2 miles below the point at which it leaves
the parish. In passing through it receives a tributary in the Burn of..................... -- "Cawdor Burn"
Cawdor, justly celebrated for the great beauty and romantic scenery.................. -- Written
of its wooded banks, and on whose brink stands the old castle of the.................. -- "Cawdor Castle" Shown
same name.
Civil History
The parish is in the hands of two proprietors; the Right Honourable the ................ -- Written Holme
Earl of Cawdor, and Sir John Rose of Holme. Neither of which is resident. .............. -- Vide Trace & Name Book of Croy &c
The seat in Scotland of the family of Cawdor is the Old Castle, which..................... -- Cawdor Castle Vide
is one of the finest specimens, and in best preservation, of those ancient............... -- Trace & Name Book
fortalices of the feudal barons, which still continue to frown over
many of our plains. The license to build it bears date 1393; but
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