Kirk of Skulls.

Gamrie church in Banffshire: so called because the skulls and other bones of the Norsemen who fell in the neighbouring field, called the Bloody Pots, were built into its walls.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Kingdom Come
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Kingsley’s Stand
Kingston Bridge
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Kingstown (Ireland)
Kingswood Lions
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Kiosk
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Kirkrapine
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