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Parish of Earsdon Township of Newsham
Sheet 81 Plan 2

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Meggie’s Burn Meggie’s Burn Property plan 17 Chains N of This stream before it joins with
Meggie’s Burn John Butters Esqr Gloucester Lodge Lysdon Burn is merely a cut drain
Meggie’s Burn Plan in the possession of TJ Taylor Esqr formerly there was a good Spring
Meggie’s Burn Mr Laws supplied it at its mouth but it
Meggy’s Burn Richardsons Map of NCastle has for many years been
filled up & it only now deserves
the name burn after its conflux with Lysdon Burn
Meggie’s Burn Ford Meggies-burn Ford Mr Bennett 17 Chains N. Where the road from Blyth to Hartley
Meggies-burn Ford John Butters Esqr of Gloucester Crosses there is a large expanse
Meggies-burn Ford Mr Lamb Lodge of water; at the period of the Chimerical
projections of the French invasion
the Army under the Command
of the Duke of Gloucester were in
cantonments in this neighbourhood
A wooden Bridge was constructed
by the troops the piles of which
still remain
Thomas Jordan
Lance Corporal Royal Engineers

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