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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
OTTER BURN Otter Burn James Hardy. Penmanshiel
Peter Aitchison. Quixwood
John Dudgeon Moor House
010.03 ; 010.07 A small stream dividing the parishes of Bunkle and Longformacus, detached,- falls into the Whiteadder Water from which it is said Otters frequently came up- and hence the origin of the name- It commences at a conduit where the Parish boundary crosses the Road from Dunse to Grantshouse.
QUIXWOOD MOOR Quixwood Moor James Hardy, Penmanshiel.
W. Grant. Grants House.
Peter Aitchison, Quixwood.
004.10 ; 010.02 ; 010.03 A very extensive tract of moorland which takes its name from the farm of Quixwood to which it belongs. It admits of cultivation for the most part.

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Sheet 10.7 Trace 2 Parish of Abbey St. Bathans (Detached)

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