OS1/5/23/82
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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WESTERROW COMMON | Westerrow Common | Mr. Blomfield, Old Lamden William Jamieson, Catmoss James Reid, Elwarthlaw Willian Clinksked, Greenlaw |
021.15 ; 021.16 | This is a large tract of land, coverd with furze, partly mixed with rough and heathy pasture, situated north west of the town of Greenlaw, west of the Kelso road and South of "Rumbleton Burn" It is enclosed on the south by "Foulshotlaw Plantation and on the west by Gordan Ph. [Parish] It is free to they inhabitants of Greenlaw for grazing their cattle on - a privilege which they claim from some old charter and one still permits to exercise. There is a trifling rent exacted for the above use of that part between "Foulshot[law] Plantation" and where a small stream branches off west (in the centre) - out of "Straig Burnz" So the part of the common last mentioned is on the fa[rm] of "Todrigg" and about being reclaimed, its pres[ent] use to the people of Greenlaw will then ceas[e] The Property of Sir Hugh H Cambell - Marchmou[nt] |
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