This " Disneyfied " image of the gnome was built upon by the illustrated children's book classic The Secret Book of Gnomes ( 1976 ), in the original Dutch Leven en werken van de Kabouter.

Captured by Bothwell's rivals, Mary was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle, and in July 1567, was forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son James VI.

The indictment of murder thus upon her, she had been forced to abdicate and was imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle.

The Marquess of Newcastle was forced to divide his army, leaving a detachment under Sir John Belasyse to watch the Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax in Hull, while he led his main body north to confront Leven.

It was politic to make the Scots pre-eminent in the north and the Scots were the largest single contingent in the Army, but Leven was also a respected veteran of the Thirty Years ' War.

The town was established in 1787 by American Revolutionary War Lieutenant Colonel and Virginia statesman, John Leven Powell.

When Leven Powell declined to have the town named after him, the town was called Middleburgh, and later, simply Middleburg.

The lettering spells " Water is Leven " ( Water is Life ), meant to symbolize a prior waterway that was paved over.

It is recorded that Mary, Queen of Scots used the ferry on the day she was transported to Loch Leven Castle where she was imprisoned in 1565.

A Swedish-allied army under general Johan Baner decisively defeated a combined Imperial-Saxon army, led by Count Melchior von Hatzfeld and the Saxon Elector John George I. Baner was helped by Swedish Count Lennart Torstenson and Scottish professional soldiers Alexander Leslie, later first Earl of Leven, James King, later first Lord Eythin, and John Ruthven.

Andrew Wyntoun, known as Andrew of Wyntoun ( c. 1350 – c. 1423 ) was a Scottish poet, a canon and prior of Loch Leven on St Serf's Inch and later, a canon of St. Andrews.

The world's first bumblebee sanctuary was established at Vane Farm in the Loch Leven National Nature Reserve in Scotland in 2008.

Through the influence of the Earl of Leven Wilkie was admitted to the Trustees ' Academy in Edinburgh, and began the study of art under John Graham.

Mary was sent into captivity in Loch Leven Castle, while her Protestant half-brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray was appointed Regent on behalf of his nephew.

Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven ( 1582 – 4 April 1661 ) was a Scottish soldier in Dutch, Swedish and Scottish service.

Leven eventually accepted command of the forces raised for the invasion of England, and was in consequence accused of having broken his personal oath to Charles.

When Charles surrendered to the Scottish army again in 1646, he was placed under the charge of General Lord Leven, who returned him to the English in 1647.

In August 1651 Leven was captured by a group of English dragoons, and was sent to London.

Also listed was Cross Keys beside the Leven Bridge.

This recommendation was then sent to First United States Army Group, 21st Army Group and the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, but was criticized and opposed by the Chief of Staff of First United States Army Group, Major-General Leven C. Allen.

The village lies at the head of the fjord-like Loch Leven and is surrounded on three sides by steep mountains.

Kinsella has published over thirty books and his many awards include three Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, the John Bray Award for Poetry, and the 2008 Christopher Brennan Award.

It is about three miles inland from the Firth of Forth, north of Leven.

Dinsdale was educated at Rise, a village about three miles south-east of Leven, and came to Canada in 1904.

It is the largest town in the Vale of Leven, the others being Balloch, Renton, Jamestown and Bonhill ; their combined population is over 20, 000.

The combined forces of the English Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester and the Scottish Covenanters under the Earl of Leven defeated the Royalists commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the Marquess of Newcastle.

In 1644, Leven commanded an army that he marched to England to take part in the unsuccessful Siege of York, before participating in the Battle of Marston Moor.

He was captured by the Earl of Morton, and confined at Loch Leven before being sent back to England for execution.

Glen Coe then runs roughly west for about before turning north-west towards Loch Leven.

It then passes through Glencoe village, shortly before flowing into the sea loch of Loch Leven ( a salt-water arm of Loch Linnhe ) at Invercoe.

The A590 reaches its most northern point at the foot of Windermere, before following the route of the River Leven to its estuary at Greenodd.

The river drains Coniston Water from its southernmost point and flows for about 6 miles ( 9. 5 km ) in a southerly direction before joining the upper estuary of the River Leven at Greenodd.

In 1655 Cromwell was convinced enough of his guilt to have him removed as governor of Hull and to confiscate the lands granted to him by Parliament in Scotland handing them back to Earl of Leven the owner before they were confiscated by Parliament.

On 22 April, Leven and the Fairfaxes joined forces at Wetherby, about west of York.

David Ramsay ( c. 1740 – c. 1810 ) was a controversial figure born in Leven, Scotland, who served as a cabin boy in the British Royal Navy, participated in the siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and later acted as a courier, translator and fur and alcohol trader, in part of the lower Great Lakes region consisting of present day southern Ontario, Canada, and western New York state.

At once, Leven, Fairfax and Manchester broke up the siege of York and moved out to meet him.

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The estates are Willey Flatts, Layfield Farm, The Kebbell ( locally known as Spitalfields ), Leven Park and Levendale ( occasionally referred to as Ingleby Grange ).

Mary eventually escaped from Loch Leven, and attempted to regain the throne by force.

* 1950 – Jackie Leven, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Doll by Doll ) ( d. 2011 )

The story tells of the approach of forty Viking galleys up the narrows by Ballachulish into Loch Leven, and the ensuing battle between the Norsemen and the Feinn of the valley of Glencoe, in which Earragan is slain by Goll MacMorna.

It is bounded in the east by the Leven estuary, Crake, Coniston Water, and Yewdale Beck.

Very few other strongholds remained in Scottish hands in the winter of 1333 — only the castles of Kildrummy ( held by Christian Bruce, elder sister of Robert I and wife of Andrew Murray of Bothwell ), Loch Leven, Loch Doon, and Urquhart held out against Balliol forces.

Songwriter Mel Leven had, in fact, written several additional songs for the film including " Don't Buy a Parrot from a Sailor ", a cockney chant, meant to be sung by the Badduns at the De Vil Mansion, and " March of the One Hundred and One ", which the dogs were meant to sing after escaping Cruella by van.

The Culdee of Loch Leven lived on St Serf's Inch, which had been given them by a Pictish prince, Brude, about 700.

* Scottish Cup final – Vale of Leven win by a walkover after Rangers refuse to appear in the replay due to a protest about a disallowed goal in the original match, drawn 1 – 1.

* Scottish Cup final – Queen's Park win by a walkover after Vale of Leven fail to appear

* Life of Michael Bruce, Poet of Loch Leven, by James Mackenzie. A restatement of the case for Bruce's authorship, coupled with a rather violent attack on Logan, is to be found in the with Vindication of his Authorship of the " Ode to the Cuckoo " and other Poems, also Copies of Letters written by John Logan, first published ( 1905 ),

The lake is drained from its southernmost point by the River Leven.

The micro-brewery was re-opened in 2011 by Harry Heskey ( former head brewer for Atlas ) and now provides River Leven Ales

The Old Dumbarton Bridge over the River Leven, Dunbartonshire | River Leven was built in 1765 by John Brown of Dumbarton, at the site of a ferry crossing.