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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bonar Bridge</span> Human settlement in Scotland

Bonar Bridge is a village on the north bank of the Kyle of Sutherland to the west and the Dornoch Firth to the east in the Parish of Creich in the Highland council area of Scotland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Creigh Deeds</span> American politician from Virginia (born 1958)

Robert Creigh Deeds is an American lawyer and politician serving as a member of the Senate of Virginia representing the 25th district since 2001. Previously, he was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Virginia in 2005 and Governor of Virginia in 2009. He was defeated in both of those races by Republican Bob McDonnell. Deeds lost by just 323 votes in 2005, but was defeated by a wide margin of over 17 percentage points in 2009. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2001.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Creich, Sutherland</span> Human settlement in Scotland

Creich is a substantial parish on the north side of the Dornoch Firth the largest settlement being Bonar Bridge. It lies in Sutherland, Highland, Scotland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aridhglas</span> Hamlet near Fionnphort on Isle of Mull, Scotland

Aridhglas is a village on the Ross of Mull, Isle of Mull in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Creich Hall, Creich War memorial and Creich Church are located in or around the settlement. Aridhglass is one mile (1.6 km) east of Fionnphort on the road to Bunessan, at the junction with the road to Kintra.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2009 Virginia gubernatorial election</span> Election for the governorship of the U.S. state of Virginia

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Spinningdale</span> Human settlement in Scotland

Spinningdale is a hamlet, in the Parish of Creich, on the north shore of the Dornoch Firth in eastern Sutherland, in the Highlands of Scotland. It lies 5 miles northeast of Bonar Bridge and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Creich Castle</span>

Creich Castle is a ruined tower house near Creich, Fife, Scotland. The tower house and its associated buildings is a scheduled monument. There is a mention of a castle on the property in the 13th century, but it is uncertain what relationship that has to the existing structures. There is documentary evidence of a tower in 1553, but the existing structure either postdates that or has been heavily remodeled, judging by its architectural style.

Creich, is a hamlet in Fife, Scotland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clan Bethune</span> Lowland Scottish family

Bethune of Balfour is an ancient Scottish family who from about 1375 to 1888 were lairds of Balfour in Fife, an estate in the Lowlands parish of Markinch. Originating before the year 1000 in the town of Béthune, then in the county of Flanders, over the centuries the pronunciation of the family name shifted from the original French bay-tune to the Scots bee-t'n, usually written Beaton. From about 1560, members of the family started using the French spelling again.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barony of Denboig/Dunbog</span>

The Barony of Denboig is a Scottish feudal barony Parish in the county of Fife in Scotland. In the medieval period the church and parish of Dunbog originally belonged to the Abbey of Arbroath in Angus. Arbroath or Aberbrothock Abbey was initially a Cluniac Priory founded by King William the Lion in 1178, later, around 1233, it was taken over by Tironsian monks from Kelso Abbey. Arbroath Abbey is famed as the site of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1320. Within the parish of Dunbog stood the Cistercian Priory of Cadvan, a cell of nearby Balmerino Abbey. Balmerino Abbey which lies on the shores of the River Tay, across from Dundee, was founded as a Cistercian house by the widow of King William the Lion in 1236. The only building of historical significance in modern Dunbog is Dunbog Mansion house which is built on the site of Cadvan Priory. At one point it was occupied by Cardinal David Beaton [born 1494- died 1546].

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luthrie</span> Village in Fife, Scotland

Luthrie is a village in the parish of Creich in Fife, Scotland. A small stream shown on maps as Windygates Burn flows through the village and occasionally floods.

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Moonzie is a small parish in Fife, Scotland, about 3 miles north-west of Cupar. It is bounded on the west by Creich, on the north by Kilmany, on the south-east by Cupar and on the south-west by Monimail.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gustavus Aird</span> Scottish minister and campaigner against the Highland Clearances

Gustavus Aird (1813–1898) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland who served as Gaelic Moderator of the General Assembly in Inverness in 1888. He was an active campaigner against the Highland Clearances.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Beaton of Creich</span> Scottish landowner and courtier

Robert Beaton of Creich was a Scottish landowner and courtier. He served as a Master of Household to Mary, Queen of Scots.

David Betoun of Creich (1466–1505) was a Scottish landowner and courtier.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Beaton of Creich</span> Scottish landowner and courtier

John Beaton of Creich was a Scottish landowner and courtier.

David Bethune, 8th of Creich (c.1605–1660), his family name pronounced and sometimes written Beaton, was a Scottish landowner and politician from Fife.