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OS1/10/20/88

  1. Records
  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Dumfriesshire OS Name Books, 1848-1858
  4. Dumfriesshire volume 20
  5. OS1/10/20/88
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
HAWKNEST RIG Hawknest Rig
Hawknest Rig		 Mr. A H Borthwick Mosspeeble
James Rutherford Shepherd Mosspeeble		 037 [Situation] S.E. [South East] of Pike Fell.
A small ridge of a hill to the west of Byre Cleuch, the surface of which is heathy pasture, on the farm of Lodgegill; the property of the Duke of Buccleuch.
HARE GRAIN Hare Grain
Hare Grain		 Mr. A H. Borthwick Mosspeeble
James Rutherford Shepherd Mosspeeble		 037 [Situation] At the N.E. [North East] base of Hawknest Rig.
A small stream having its source at the east end of Pike Fell and runs in a southerly dirrection till it joins Byre Cleugh Burn.
BYRECLEUCH BURN Byre Cleuch Burn Described on Sheet 37 No. 5.
HAWKNEST SIKE Hawknest Sike See Page 126.

Continued entries/extra info

[Page] 88
Parish of Ewes -- Sheet 37 -- No. 1 -- Trace 5

Byre Cleuch [crossed out]

[Signed] James Harper
[CA Civilian Assistant]

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Dumfriesshire County, Ewes Parish

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Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Dumfriesshire, Sheet Xxxvii Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Dumfriesshire, Sheet Xxxvii
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Roxburghshire, Sheet Xxxvii (& Parts Of Dumfriesshire Sheets Xxvii, Xxviii) Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Roxburghshire, Sheet Xxxvii (& Parts Of Dumfriesshire Sheets Xxvii, Xxviii)