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Definition of Kirkton
1. a village with a parish church [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirkton
Literary usage of Kirkton
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of King by Gilbert Burnet (1850)
"kirkton said he had not offended, and was willing to go to prison till ...
So he went out to procure a warrant, and left kirkton locked up in his chamber. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1818)
"Mr. James kirkton, Stc. With an Account of the Murder of Archbishop Sharp.
By James Russell, an actor therein. Edited from the MS. by Charles Kirkpatrick ..."
3. Balmerino and Its Abbey: A Parish History with Notices of the Adjacent District by James Campbell (1899)
"According to a tradition which is still current in the Parish, he had a feud with
a Laird of kirkton; and as he was one day travelling on horseback to Cupar ..."
4. Lincolnshire Pedigrees by A R (Arthur Roland) Maddison, Arthur Staunton Larken (1903)
"John kirkton, 1634. Will Hutchinson of Lincoln; dead in 1571. 1st wife.
Gregory kirkton, bapt. at Grimsby 5 July 1638. of ..."
5. Angus Or Forfarshire: The Land and People, Descriptive and Historical by Alexander Johnston Warden (1884)
"Little kirkton, Mains, was acquired by Scrymgeour, a merchant in Dundee, ...
George Palmer acquired the lands of kirkton. On 30th April, 1789, ..."
6. The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Scotland from the Earliest Christian by David MacGibbon, Thomas Ross (1897)
"... their position on a grassy knoll, from which a fine view of the Leven
was -visible, and re-erected as the gateway of a house.* CHAPEL AT THE kirkton OF ..."
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