< | 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 |
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Kippie Hill | Kippie or Kypie Hill | Mr. Chrsn Brown | On Sheet | A low hill so called a little S.E. of | ||
Mr. J. Howie | 14. 9 | Howtell, & on the boundary between the | ||||
Directory | Phs of Ford & Kirknewton, Kypie is the | |||||
Kippie | Adopted | more ancient name. | ||||
Homilton Hill | Homilton Hill | Mr. C. Brown | On Sheet | A small Knoll or hill stuck like a bur, | ||
or Reedsford Hill | Mr. W. Dodds | 14. 9 | on the N.W. face of Housedon Hill, it is | |||
Old Estate Map (1778) | best known as Reedsford Hill, but there is | |||||
Homilton Hill | Adopted | not a doubt, that the former name taken | ||||
from the old map, is the correct one. | ||||||
Housedonhaugh | Housedon Haugh | Mr. C. Brown | On Sheet | A small holding or farm on the N. Bank of | ||
Mr. W. Dodds | 14. 9 | the River Bowmont & adjoining Reedsford | ||||
Mr J Anderson | it is only a thatched house with a cottage | |||||
Housedonhaugh | Should be Compounded. | or two of the same decayed appearance. | ||||
it is sometimes spelled Hauston Haugh, | ||||||
but Housedon is the proper name, being | ||||||
derived from its proximity to the Hill | ||||||
of that name. | ||||||
Robt Young Corporal Royal Engineers |
Note: Signature in header, 'Collected by'
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