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Sheet 97 Plan 6 Trace 6 is Parish of St Johns

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
The Crooked Billet	The Crooked Billet	Mr Potts	About 3 chains S. of	Name applied to an ordinary Public
(PH)	The Crooked Billet	Mr Vinicolmb	Elswick Glue Factory	House
	The Crooked Billet	Mr Lighton
	Crooked Billet	White’s Directory

Billet Pit	Billet Pit	Mr Potts	About 6 chains S.W.	Name applied to an ordinary colliery
(Coal)	Billet Pit	Mr Vinicomb	of the Crooked Billet
	Billet Pit	Mr Lighton

Elswick Engine Works	Elswick Engine Work	Mr Potts	About 7 chains W.	This is an extensive establishment where
	Elswick Engine Work	Mr Vinicomb	of the Billet Pit	nearly all kinds of Engines are
	Elswick Engine Work	Mr Lighton		manufactored the property of Mr Sir G Armstrong
	Elswick Engine Works	List of Voters

Miser Hill	Miser Hill	Mr Potts	About 10 chains N. of	This is a small Hill in St Johns Cemetery
	Miser Hill	Mr Vinicomb	West Farm	it derives this name from the circumstance of a
	Miser Hill	Mr Lighton		certain Miser having committed suicide by hanging
				himself on one of the trees which grow on and
				about the hill

				Edw. Gillespie SRE

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