| < | 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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| Broad Skear | Broad Skear | Mr Adam Storey | To the South of the | A Reef of flat Rocks | ||
| Broad Skear | Mr John Mills | Snab Rocks | The term Skear or Skeer among the | |||
| Broad Skear | Mr David Gibson | fisher people by whom the word is exclusively | ||||
| used means flat rugged rocks submerged by the | ||||||
| sea at High Water *See below | ||||||
| White Willow Letch | White Willow Letch | Mr Adam Storey | 23 Chains & 50 Links | This rill is named from a Hedge of white willows which | ||
| White Willow Letch | Mr John Mills | South East of the | formerly grew on its banks, but owing to the improvements | |||
| White Willow Letch | Mr David Gibson | Cresswell Arms Inn | & alterations effected in the course of the formation of the Park | |||
| to the South of Cresswell Hall the Hedge disapeared, and the | ||||||
| Letch shared the same fate, only some 70 links of it being now visible | ||||||
| between the Road & high Water Mark to which the name is still applied | ||||||
| The Cresswell Arms Inn | The Cresswell Arms Inn | Mr David Gibson | 4 Chains South East | A good stone house licensed for the sale of Ale | ||
| The Cresswell Arms Inn | License | of the Cob |
& spirits with a good Yard & Stabling | |||
| The Cresswell Arms Inn | Sign Board | Attached | ||||
| Blakemoor Links | are described in Name Book of Sheet 56 Plan 9 | |||||
| Brig Head | [is described in Name Book of] Sheet 56 Plan 14 | |||||
| *it has a different pronunciation |
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| from Scar when made use of by the fishermen | ||||||
| the Scar (Brocketts) is pronounced with the broad a | ||||||
| and is applied by them to precipitious rocks overhanging | ||||||
| water which has a different meaning from the above Skear or Skeer | ||||||
| John Considine Sapper Royal Engineers | ||||||
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Transcribed by LF and JW
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