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PETERHEAD , a municipal and See also:police See also:burgh, and seaport of See also:Aberdeenshire, the most easterly See also:town in See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901), 11,794. It is situated about 33 M. by road E.N.E. of See also:Aberdeen and 44 M. by See also:rail, via Maud Junction, on the See also:Great See also:North of Scotland railway, from which there is a See also:branch See also:line. The town is built of the red See also:granite for which it is famous, and the See also:quarrying of which for See also:home and See also:foreign use constitutes an important See also:industry. Among the See also:principal buildings are the town-See also:house (1788), with a See also:spire 125 ft. high, and the See also:Arbuthnot museum and See also:art See also:gallery. In front of the town-See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall is a statue to See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field See also:Marshal See also:Keith (See also:born at Inverugie See also:Castle, 2 M. north-See also:west, in 1696), which was presented to the burgh in 1868 by See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William I. of See also:Prussia, afterwards See also:German See also:emperor. Peterhead is one of the See also:Elgin See also:district See also:group of See also:parliamentary burghs, with See also:Banff, See also:Cullen, Elgin, See also:Inverurie and See also:Kintore. It formerly had an extensive See also:trade with the ports of the Baltic, the See also:Levant and See also:America, and was once a sub-See also:port to Aberdeen, but was made See also:independent in 1832. It was also for a See also:long See also:period the See also:chief seat of the See also:Greenland trade, but the See also:Arctic See also:seal and See also:whale See also:fishery is now See also:extinct. The north and See also:south harbours See also:lie between the town and Keith See also:Inch—a suburb at the extremity of the See also:peninsula on See also:part of which the town is built—and the See also:isthmus dividing them is pierced by a See also:canal crossed by an See also:iron See also:swing-See also:bridge. In the north See also:harbour are two graving docks. A third harbour has been built, the See also:area of the three basins amounting to 21 acres. In addition to the granite quarrying and polishing, the leading See also:industries are See also:ship- and See also:boat-See also:building, agricultural See also:implement See also:works and woollen manufactures. The
See also:herring See also:fleet possesses more than 600 boats and the See also:annual
catch averages nearly £200,000. About a mile to the south
is the convict See also:prison for Scotland. Since 1886 the prisoners have been employed upon the construction of a vast harbour of See also:refuge, for which the See also:breakwater extends from Boddam Point northwards across the See also:bay. This great undertaking (intended to be completed in 1921) was designed by See also:Sir See also:John See also:Coode (d. 1892). Peterhead is the See also:terminus of a See also:cable to See also:Norway. About 6 m. south of Peterhead are the famous Hullers, or Roarers, of See also:Buchan, an enormous rocky cauldron into which the waves pour through a natural See also:arch of granite, with incredible violence, in a See also:storm.
The town and lands belonged of old to the See also:Abbey of See also:Deer, built in the 13th See also:century by William See also:Comyn, See also:earl of Buchan; but when the abbey was erected into a temporal lordship in the See also:family of Keith the superiority of the town passed to the earl marischal, with whom it continued till the See also:forfeiture of the earldom in 1716. The town and lands were See also:purchased in 1720 by a fishing See also:company in See also:England and, on their failure, by the See also:Merchant Maidens' See also:Hospital of See also:Edinburgh for £3000, who are still the overlords. Peterhead, made a burgh of See also:barony in 1593 by See also:George Keith, fifth earl marischal, was the See also:scene of the landing of the Pretender on See also:Christmas See also:Day 1715.
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