SECRETARY TO THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE FOR SCOTLAND.

DIRECTORY

TO

NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN'S SEATS,
VILLAGES, ETC., IN SCOTLAND:

GIVING THE COUNTIES IN WHICH THEY ARE SITUATED, THE POST-TOWNS

TO WHICH EACH IS ATTACHED, AND THE NAME OF THE RESIDENT.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

TABLES, SHEWING THE DESPATCH AND ARRIVAL OF THE MAILS AT THE
HEAD AND SUB-OFFICES THROUGHOUT SCOTLAND,

AND TRANSMISSION OF LETTERS TO ALL FOREIGN PARTS.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY J. A. BALLANTYNE,

PAUL'S WORK.

PREFACE.

THE COUNTY DIRECTORY has been unavoidably delayed, in consequence of the death of Mr FINDLAY, the original projector of the work. The information collected by him has been revised, with a view to correction, up to the latest possible period, by Mr THOMSON, of the General Post-Office, Edinburgh; and it is trusted that the different lists will be found as accurate as the extensive plan of such an undertaking would permit.

Seven years have elapsed since the last County Directory was issued; and a comparison of the two volumes will shew that the interval of publication has already exceeded its due limits, and that a new work was imperatively necessary. In addition to the usual Directory Lists, much useful intelligence relative to PostOffice arrangements, County and Poor Law Statistics, Local Courts, &c., has been inserted; while the Population Returns for each town and county have been given, according to the Census of 1851.

To the numerous parties who have aided in the compilation of the work, the Publishers have to return their best thanks; and to them and to others they beg to intimate that any suggestions for its improvement will be carefully and gratefully attended to.