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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
HERIOT WATER Herriot Water
Herriot Water
Heriot Water
Heriot Water
Heriot Water
County Map dated 1821
Mr McGregor.
Revd [Reverend] Mr Ingles, Stockbridge
Mr George Chirnside, Hoprig
Gazeteer of Scotland (Fullarton)
004 [Situation] Crossing the Parish Boundary about 48 chains SW. [South West] from the [N.E] [North East] end of Dods [Strip] and flowing in [an] easterly direction through the plan [line] having [Shiels] and Shiels Wood on its N. [North] [Bank]
SHIELS Shiels
Shiels
Shiels
Mr George Chirnside Occupier
Mr McGregor Ph [Parish] Schoolmaster
Mr George Crooks Postmaster Cockburnspath
004.01 [Situation] About eight chains E [East] from Shiels Wood and about thirty five chains S. [South] from the S. [South] end of "Black Dub"
A small farmhouse, with suitable offices attached. also a large farm. Occupied by Mr George Chirnside property of Captn [Captain] Hunter Thurston East Lothian.
Not. The term Shiels, is a corruption of the Saxon, Sceele, Scyle or Scheale which Signifies a hut or, Secondarily, a hamlet. Those Sceeles or Scheals were, in former times, the dwellings of herds who tended their cattle in hilly and moorland districts. Similar huts or Shealings are Still used for this Same purposes on the moors of certain outlandish parts of the North of Scotland
For more particulars respecting the derivation of Shiel See Chalmers' Caledonia Vol.2. P.309

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