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Various modes of Spelling the same Names |
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| Battle Place | Battle Place | Revd. F Thompson | On Sheet | This name is applied to a part of | ||
| site of a Battle Fought AD 1370 | site of a Battle fought A.b. 1370 | Mr Davidson | 9.13 | a field close to the site of the | ||
| Mr Dove | old walls of Wark Castle and is considered | |||||
| merely a farm name for the enclosure | ||||||
| In 1370 Sir John Lilburn was defeated at this place by | ||||||
| the Scots | ||||||
| Gallows Hill | Gallows Hill | Revd F Thompson | On Sheet | A prominent green knoll about | ||
| Mr Dove | 9.13 | 1/2 a mile westward from Wark Village | ||||
| Mr Davidson | and the spot in which the sentence | |||||
| of Criminals was carried into | ||||||
| execution, hence the name of Gallow | ||||||
| Hill. | ||||||
| Dean Burn | Dean Burn | Mr Davidson | On Sheet | A small Burn that flows from | ||
| Engraved map of Parish | 9.13 | a pond near Shidlaw and |
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| Mr Dove | the south side of Gallow Hill until | |||||
| it enters in the flat ground, after | ||||||
| which it loses this name and | ||||||
| takes the name of "The Goat" | ||||||
| William Boyd C/a |
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