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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
FORE BURN Fore Burn
Fore Burn
Fore Burn
Mr D. Brown Edingarioch
Mr J. Lesley Licklyhead
Mr Tough Auchleven
053 A small burn rising on the N [North] Side of Benachie, and running in a northerly direction till it joins the Back Burn at Licklyhead
BROCLACH HILL [1895] Brackla Hill
Brackla Hill
Brackla Hill
Mr W. Law. Brackla
Mr W. Daw Brackla
Mr D. Brown
053 An isolated hill covered with whins and Rough Pasture. Situated about a fourth of a mile N. [North] of the Brackla Burn
BRACKLA Brackla
Brackla
Brackla
Mr W. Law
Mr W. Daw
Mr D. Brown
053 Two ordinary farmhouses with offices and gardens attached, property of Col. [Colonel] Leith Hay of Leith Hall

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Parish of Premnay

[Note attached to 'Broclach Hill']
"Brack - A stripe of uncultivated land between two shots or plots of land"
"Law - A designation given to many hills."- (Jamieson)

[Brackla Hill is altered to Broclach Hill] Altered by the authority of James Macdonald Esqr, The Farm, Huntly, N.B. [North Britain]

?Brochlach a badger warren. Common becoming Bracklaw la & lay [Initialled] JMcD

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