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Parish of Haltwhistle Sheet 83 Plan 10

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
Wealside	Wealside	Mr Little (Wealside)	50 Chains	A good farm house
	Wealside	Mr Lowes (Gallashaw Rigg)	North West	with outhouses and
	Wealside	Mr Hudspeith	of Saughy Rigg	garden attached
	Wealside	Co Voters List

Fond Tom’s Pool	Fond Tom’s Pool	Mr Lowes	25 Chains North	A old wash pool on the
	Fond Tom’s Pool	Mr Little	East of Saughy	Saughy Rigg farm deriving
	Fond Tom’s Pool	Mr Hudspeith	Rigg	its name from an insane person
				called "Tom" who was
				nearly drowned in it

Saughyrigg Washpool	Saughyrigg Washpool	Mr Little	22 Chains North	A place on the Caw Burn over
	Saughyrigg Washpool	Mr Hepple	North east of	which is thrown a Dam used
	Saughyrigg Washpool	Bruce’s Roman Wall	Saughy Rigg	by the Farmers to wash their
				Sheep in. the name is worthy
				of being written on account of
				this being the place where the Roman Aqueduct
				begins

				James Sloan Sapper Royal Engineers

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