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Place name County Entry Source Backaskail Orkney Backaskail, a bay in Cross and Burness parish, Sanday island, Orkney. It produces enormous quantities of shell-fish. Groome Burness Orkney Burness , ancient par., now united to Cross par., in Sanday island, Orkne. Bartholomew Burness Orkney Burness, an ancient parish, now annexed to Cross parish, in Sanday island, Orkney. Originally called St Colm's, it forms Groome Burrion Orkney Burrion, an ancient castle in Cross and Burness parish, Orkney, now represented by only substructions and one large stone. Groome CHESTER Cheshire CHESTER , a city and two sub-districts in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; and a diocese in Cheshire and part of Imperial Cross and Burness Orkney Cross and Burness , united par., Orkney, 8265 ac., pop. 1684; comprises N. Ronaldshay and part of Sanday. Bartholomew Cross and Burness Orkney Cross and Burness, a united parish in the N of Orkney, comprising the south-western and north-western limbs of Sanday Groome Dennissness Orkney Dennissness, a headland in Cross and Burness parish, Sanday island, Orkney. Groome Dunbar East Lothian Dunbar (Gael. dun-barr, ` fort on the point '), a town and a parish on the north-eastern coast of Haddingtonshire Groome Elgin Moray crosses the Lossiemouth railway, is a pool, till recently of considerable depth, known as 'the order Pot,' a name corrupted most probably from the ordeal Pot, and the place where presumptive witches underwent the ordeal by water. lt. may have also been the place where criminals sentenced to be put to death by drowning (as was sometimes the case) were executed, and was probably the only remaining specimen of such a 'pit.' In Rhind's Sketches of Moray there is a long account of the death of a supposed witch by drowning at this place. Traditionally it was supposed Groome North Isles Orkney Cross and Burness, Lady, and Westray and Papa, with the quoad sacra parishes of Eday and North Ronaldshay. Pop. (1871) 9312, (1881) 9373, of whom Groome Orkney Orkney Cross and Burness-which includes the W part of Sanday, Holms of Spurness, Holms of Ire and North Ronaldsay; Lady Groome Ronaldshay, North Orkney Cross and Burness parish, Orkney. The island is the most northerly of the North Isles of Orkney, lying 2½ miles Groome Ronaldshay, North Orkney Cross and Burness par., Orkney, pop. 547; is the most northerly of the Orkney Islands, measures 3 miles long and 2 miles Bartholomew Sanday Orkney Cross and Burness on the W. Five public schools-Burness, Cross, Lady, North Ronaldshay, and Sellibister-with respective accommodation for 80, 60, 140, 96, and 132 children Groome Sanday Orkney Cross and Burness, pop. 2082; P.O., T.O.; is very irregular in form and very flat, and has a light sandy Bartholomew
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