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Sheet 41 Plan 16 Parish of Elsdon

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
Hillhead	Hillhead	Mr. Anderson	About 67 chains S.E.	A small stone building used a a dwelling house
	Hillhead	Mr. Bell	Blakehopeburnhaugh	for the shepherd of Blakehopeburnhaugh Farm
	Hillhead	Mr. Robson

Peg’s Height	Peg’s Height	Mr. Anderson	About 64 chains S W of	A high ridge of land so called from the name of
	Peg’s Height	Mr. Bell	Blakehopeburnhaugh	a female who once occupied the cottage called Hillhead
	Peg’s Height	Mr. Robson

	Blakehopeburnhaugh Moor	Mr. Anderson	About 60 chains S. of	~~A large district of rough Moorland and rough pasturage~~
	Blakehopeburnhaugh Moor	Mr. Bell	Blakehopeburnhaugh	~~comprising nearly the whole of the Blakehopeburnhaugh~~
	Blakehopeburnhaugh Moor	Mr. Robson Cancelled		~~Farm the property of Lord Redesdale~~

	River Rede			See Name Book of 41-12

	Cottonshopeburnfoot Moor			See Name Book of 41-12

	Raw Moor			See Name Book of 41-12

	Stile Sike			See Name Book of 41 15

				Edw. Gillespie Sapper Royal Engineers

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