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Sheets 20.11 and 12 Parish of Chillingham

List of Names as written on the Plan	Various modes of Spelling the same Names	Authority for those modes of Spelling	Situation	Descriptive Remarks, or other General Observations which may be considered of Interest
Post Office	Post Office	Rev Wm Robt Dodd, Vicar	See Sheet	A one storey house used as a Post
		Chillingham	20.11	Office, where letters are received, and
	Post Office	Thomas Foster, Postmaster		despatched, once a day, to and from
	Post Office	Richard Hardy, steward		Chatton, Proprietor, the Earl of Tankerville.
		Chillingham

Charley’s Hill	Charley’s Hill	~~Richard~~ William Hardy, Steward.	See Sheet	A slight eminence, situated in
	Charley’s Hill	George Brown – gardener	20.12	Chillingham Park, the summit of
		Chillingham		which is partly studded with wood
	Charley’s Hill	W.G. Thomson, schoolmaster
		Chillingham

Achnacarry	Achnacarry	William Hardy, Steward.
Plantation	Plantation		See Sheet	A plantation chiefly firs, situated
	Achnacarry	George Brown – gardener	20.12	in the North east extremity of Chillingham
	Plantation	Chillingham		park, the property of the Earl of Tankerville.
		W.G. Thomson, schoolmaster		The trees comprising this plantation were
		Chillingham		got at a place called "Achnacarry" in the
				Highlands, and hence the name.

				John Callanan 2nd Corporal Royal Engineers

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Transcribed by JMCN and SW