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Borrowstounness Bo'ness or
Borrowstounness
Borrowstounness

Borrowstounness
Revd. [Reverend] Kenneth Mackenzie Minister Bo'ness
John Anderson Merchant Bo'ness
James Webster Banker Boness
001 [Situation] In the N E [North-East] Corner of the parish of Borrowstounness.

A flourishing little town situated on the south bank of the Firth of Forth extending along the shore from Grangepans, to Snab Toll. It is composed of two streets, with closes, and lanes, branching off them, the houses are, one, two, and three, stories high; the most of which have gardens attached. It is partly feued, and partly tenanted. The Duke of Hamilton is the superior, who has a grant from government to reclaim as much land as he can, and the numerous manufactures afford him every means for adding more land to the shore, by depositing the whole of their rubbish in the sea. Several portions of the said land is being feued, and new buildings are being erected on it. So this town has every appearance of becoming far more important than it at present is. The public buildings are the Established Church, the U.P. [United Presbyterian] Church, the Free Church, the parish School, an Infant School endowed by government, three subscription schools, the Town House, the Custom House, and the Post Office. There is likewise a branch of the Clydesdale Bank here. The manufactures are a large Chemical Work, Kinneil Iron Works, a large Pottery, a large Distillery, (there is about 60.000 gallons of small whisky distilled here every year) a large Boiling House, for boiling whales, seals etc. (a number of Norwegian fishermen bring blubber to be boiled here, because they get a better market for oil here, than they would at home) a Gas Work, having two gasometers, the one at the west end of the town contains 17000 cubic feet, and that at the work contains 7200 feet. A small Foundry &

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