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Sheet 35 Plan C Elsdon Parish

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Cottonshope Head Cottonshope Head Peter Pott 46 Chains from A name applied to the portion of land
Cottonshope Head Michael Litle Watling Street Road whereon the Herds House is built which
Cottonshope Head John Murdie is a small thatched House Situated on
Cottonshope Farm in a bad state of repair.
The name is derived from the ground on
which it stands. J.D.
Watling Street {Watling StreetRoad Peter Pott 46 Chains from A very ancient Road formerly occupied
ROMAN ROAD Roman{Watling StreetRoad Michael Litle Cottonshope head by the Romans & is said to be at one time
(Site of) road{Watling StreetRoad John Murdie See Name Book of going from Edinburgh to Newcastle upon Tyne
Sheet 41/1 J.D.
Outer Golden Pot Outer Golden Pot Peter Pott 53 Chains North of A Square rough unhewn Stone 2 ft 6 in x 2 feet
Outer Golden Pot Michael Litle Cottonshope Head with a square hole drilled in the Centre
Outer Golden Pot John Murdie 1 ft 3 in x 9 inches & 6 inches deep. This Stone is
McLauchlans Memoir of lying flat in the Centre of the Roman Way
Watling Street at the eastern extremity of Pepper Side.
Local tradition asserts that this stone together
with others of the Same description have been
erected as boundary Stones between the
Chapelry of Holystone & the Parish of Elsdon.
J. Doherty
Lance Corporal Royal Engineers

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