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Sheet 87 Plan 14 Parish of Ovingham

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Blakeley Hill Blakeley Hill Mr. Hindmarsh North side of A slight eminence surmounted by a
Blakeley Hill Mr. Dobson Blakeley Plantation Trig. point (this name no doubt is a
Blakeley Hill Mr. Bell corruption of Blake Law but it was
impossible to obtain Authorities for this
mode of spelling.)
Harlowhill East Harlowhill East TP Mr. Hindmarsh on the turnpike A gatehouse & gate for the collection of
(TP) Harlowhill East TP Mr. Dobson Road tolls, so called to distinguish it from
Harlowhill East TP Mr. Bell Harlowhill West, TP
ROMAN CISTERN Roman Cistern Mr. Hindmarsh West of & adjoining A Cavity hewn out of the solid rock
Roman Cistern Mr. Dobson to Rudchester by the ancient Romans. In Bruce the
Roman Cistern Mr. Bell following description of this object is given
Coffin Mr MacLauchlan’s Map of the Roman Wall "On the Brow of the hill west of the station
Cistern White’s Directory Vol: II P. 137 there is still to be seen hewn out of a solid rock
what Wallis calls a Coffin it has more the
appearance of a cistern, it is 12 feet long 4 ft
broad & 2 ft deep, & has a hole close to the
bottom at one end. When discovered it had a
partition of masonry across it and three feet
from one end and contained many decayed bones"
John Stewart
LCorp RE

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Transcribed by DP and DW

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