Parish of Dolphinton
including the village of Dolphinton.
DOLPHINTON, hamlet and parish on south-east border of Lanarkshire. The hamlet lies 11¼ miles south-east of Carstairs Junction, and has a post office, designated of Peeblesshire, a railway station, a parochial church, and a public school with about 61 scholars. —The parish is about 3 miles long, and comprises 3574 acres. Real property in 1880-81, £3519. Pop. 292. The surface has a minimum altitude of about 700 feet above sea-level, and contains the conical mount of Keir Hill, and the mountain of Dolphinton Hill, yet is mostly arable. The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev John Wilson, 1882.
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