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Auchensaugh or Auchenshauch, a broad-based hill in Douglas parish, Lanarkshire, 2½ miles SSE of Douglas town. Its cairn-crowned top, 1286 feet above sea-level, was the meeting-place of the Cameronians (27 July 1712), who, entering on the ` Auchenshauch Declaration and Engagement,' renewed therein the Covenants, while protesting against all schism and sinful separation from the Church of Scotland (themselves, to wit), and solemnly binding themselves to extirpate Prelacy, and all rites, ceremonies, heresies, and false doctrines. The ` Auchenshauch Wark ' is memorable as the organising of the first Secession-the Reformed Presbyterian church. See vol. viii., pp. 237-242, of Hill Burton's History of Scotland (ed. 1876).
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a broad-based hill" (ADL Feature Type: "mountains") |
| Administrative units: | Douglas ScoP Lanarkshire ScoCnty |
| Place names: | AUCHENSAUGH | AUCHENSAUGH OR AUCHENSHAUCH | AUCHENSHAUCH |
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