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Sheet 69 Plan 9 Parish of Chollerton

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
ROMAN ROAD	Watling Street	Mr. Jobson	About 29 Chains E.	A good and substantial modern Turnpike
(Site of)	Watling Street	Mr. Riddell	of Green Rig	Road constructed on the site of the ancient
Watling Street	Watling Street	Mr Forster		celebrated Roman Road cl called Watlingstreet
				and still retains the above name

Lowshieldgreen Crags	Lowshieldgreen Crags	Mr. Jobson	About 16 chains S.E	A very steep ruggid bank covered
	Lowshieldgreen Crags	Mr. Riddell	of Prestwick Burn	with loose block of coarse sand stone
	Lowshieldgreen Crags	Mr. Lamb

Prestwick Burn	Prestwick Burn	Mr. Riddell	About 2 chains S	A small stream issueing from a
	Prestwick Burn	Mr. Lamb	of Buteland Fell	good spring, it joins Heugh Burn at the
	Prestwick Burn	Mr Forster		township Boundary.

Tone Lane	Tone Lane	Mr. Riddell	About 28 chains W	A small Township Road enclosed by
	Tone Lane	Mr. Lamb	of Watlingstreet	stone walls
	Tone Lane	Mr Forster

	Broomhope Burn }			Described in Sheet 68 Plan 8
	Buteland Fell }

	Heugh Burn		In Name Book of 68/12

				Edward Gillespie Sapper Royal Engineers

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