Parish of Crawfordjohn
including the villages of Abington and Crawfordjohn
CRAWFORDJOHN, village and parish in upper ward of Lanarkshire. The village stands on Duncaton rivulet, 3¾ miles from its influx to the Clyde, and has a post office under Abington, a parochial church with 310 sittings, and a public school with about 72 scholars. The parish contains also Abington village, and measures 11 miles in length and about 9 miles in greatest breadth. Area, 26,357 acres. Real property in 1880-81, £11,088. Pop., quoad civilia, 843 ; quoad sacra, 836. The surface comprises about 3200 acres of arable land, but is chiefly pastoral upland, and includes part of Cairntable Mountain. A feudal tower stands at Snar, and vestiges of a great camp are on Netherton Hill. A Free church is at Abington ; and 4 schools with accommodation for 220 scholars are within the parish. The Gazetteer of Scotland, by Rev John Wilson, 1882
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