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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
HOOK SIKE Hook Syke
Hook Syke
E Calvart Farmer Orchard
George Warrick Farmer OuterWoodhead
053; 054 [Situation] From the Nn. [Northern] vicinity of Orchard S.E. [South East] to Byre Burn.
A small burn having its source a little to the north of Orchard flowing in a southerly direction and empties itself into Byre Burn.
TOWER (Site of) [Woodhead] Woodhead Tower (Site of)
Woodhead Tower (Site of)
Site of Tower
Site of Tower
Edward Calvert Farmer Orchard
George Warwick, Farmer Outer Woodhead
New Statistical Acct. [Account] of Dumfries
Gazetteer of Scotland
054 [Situation] At Outer Woodhead
This is the site of a Border Tower formerly a stronghold of the Armstrongs.

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[Page] 96,
[Faint note above Ewes] -- Canonbie
Parish of Ewes -- Sheet 53 No 5 -- T [Trace] 1

[Signed] John McDonnell
Spr R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]

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