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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ST YARCHARD'S WELL St Yarchard's Well
St Yarchard's Well
St Yarchard's Well
Mr James Clark
Mr William Coutts
Mr William Barclay
083 A well built Pant of Masonry, surmounted by a small iron Cross, the whole erected in A.D. 1858; its supply of Water comes from a powerful spring about 400 Yds North east of the Pant and is conveyed to this place by Pipes, the said spring being the original "St. Yarchard's Well" but as it is now covered in the Villagers perpetuate the old name by transferring it to the Modern Pant, local tradition has it that Saint Yarchard was the first Clergyman of Kincardine O'Neil.
Covered SPRING formerly St Yarchard's Well 083 A well built Pant of Masonry, surmounted by a small iron Cross, the whole erected in A.D. 1858; its supply of Water comes from a powerful spring about 400 Yds North east of the Pant and is conveyed to this place by Pipes, the said spring being the original "St. Yarchard's Well" but as it is now covered in the Villagers perpetuate the old name by transferring it to the Modern Pant, local tradition has it that Saint Yarchard was the first Clergyman of Kincardine O'Neil.

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Ph. [Parish] of Kincardine O'Neil County of Aberdeen

Rough sketch of well.

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