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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CASAICHE BURN Cashachie Burn
Cashachie Burn
Cashachie Burn
Mr. R. Gordon Farmer Gordonstown
Mr. Garrie Gamekeeper Knockespock
Rev: [Reverend] John Minto Clatt
052 A Stream which issues near the Cashachie Howe. It is also made up of other water springs of superior quality portion of which is conducted to Knockespock House for the benefit of the proprietor of the district.
WOOD OF KNOCKESPOCK Wood of Knockespock
Knockespock Wood
Knockespock Wood
Sir Henry Percy Gordon Barnt [Baronet] Knockespock
Mr. Garrie Gamekeeper Knockespock
Mr. R. Gordon Farmer Gordonstown
052 Is the Central portion of the Woods of Knockespock Demesne bounded on the NW. [North West] by the portion bearing the name of Craignook Wood and on the E. [East] by the slopped range called Suie Wood.
MIRE OF MIDGATES Mire of Midgates
Mire of Midgates
Mire of Midgates
Rev [Reverend] John Minto Clatt
Mr. Garrie Gamekeeper Knockespock
Mr. R. Gordon Farmer Gordonstown
052 Applies to a marshy piece of waste ground on the Summit of Correen Hill near to the boundary of this parish and the parish of Tullynessle.

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Parish of Clatt
Aberdeenshire

[note attached to "Casaiche Burn"]
"Casaiche, gen. [genitive] of Casach - Having feet."-
"Ciasach. - Bordered, fringed etc." (Gaelic)
"Ciosaiche. - A conqueror etc."- (Ibid.)

[note attached to "Wood of Knockespock"]
"Knock - A hill." (Jamieson)
"Cnoc. - A hill -
Spoc - spoke of a wheel."- (Gaelic)

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