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Sheet 61 Plan 14 Parish of Kirkwhelpington

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
Pit House	Pit House	Mr Rudd	About 22 chains W	A neat stone building so called from a coal Pit
	Pit House	Mr Davison	of Nether Pike	which was formerly wrought near to it now closed up
	Pit House	Mr Thornton		The Property of W. Jobling Esq

Nether Pike	Nether Pike	Mr Rudd	About 22 chains E	A remarkable eminence which was in former times
	Nether Pike	Mr Davison	of Pit House	crowned with a pile of rough stones now removed
	Nether Pike	Mr Thornton		but the eminence still retains the name

The Linn	The Linn	Mr Rudd	About 22 chains N	A remarkable water fall on Lisles Burn where the
	The Linn	Mr Davison	of Pit House	stream falls over a steep ledge of Rock this object
	The Linn	Mr Thornton		gives name to a farm house in Corsenside Parish
				namely the Linn Heads

Ray Tongue	Ray Tongue	Mr Rudd	North of Lisles Burn	A district of ancient land formed by the junction
	Ray Tongue	P Mr Davison	and East of Risey Burn	of Lisles and Risey Burns and bounded on the east
	Ray Tongue	Hodgsons History		and south sides by a stone wall the property
				of W. Jobling Esq

	Risey Burn			See name Book of 69-2

				Edw. Gillespie Sapper Royal Engineers

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