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Parish of Holy Island (Detached) Sheet 7-1

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
Scremerston Colliery	Scremerston	Mr Matthew Young, Agent	on Sheet	A large Colliery on the east
	Colliery		7.1	side of the turnpike road
	Scremerston	John Grey Esqr		leading from Berwick to
	Colliery			Belford &c ~~and~~ about 3 miles
	Scremerston	Mr Edward Pringle		from the former this one
	Colliery			pit gives employment to above
				a 100 hands, the Commissioners
				of Greenwich Hospital, (to whom
				the Royalty belongs) constructed
				a Railway from the pit to
				the North Eastern Railway, for
				conveying the coal on to that line;
				for about two thirds of the
				distance, the waggons are drawn
				by horses, the remainder being
				an Incline, ~~and~~ on which the
				full Waggons bring up the
				empty ones, – there are a number
				of superior Cottages, contiguous
				~~which are~~ occupied by the
				pitmen, ~~It is~~ the Property of
				Greenwich Hospital –

				John McCabe

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