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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CRAIGHEAD LIME WORKS Craighead Lime Works
Craighead Lime Works
Craighead Lime Works
Rev [Reverend] P. Richardson
Thomas Scott
Ivie Willet
050 Craighead Lime Works are of a very ancient date and famed for the excellent quality of their lime, and also for containing some rare geological specimens of fossils etc. A little beyond the present workings of the quarry is a "dike" of a hard blueish whinstone running east and west the Same Sort of limestone being on both sides of it. Its average width is about 11 feet, and some Geologists suppose its depth to be several miles - It has been traced from the Sea coast, to the hills above Dalmellington in many places coming to the surface
PLANTINHEAD Plantainhead
Plantainhead
Plantainhead
Plantinhead
Plantinhead
Plantinhead
Plantinghead
Thomas Scott
Ivie Willet
J.B. Ross Esq
W. Menzies
W. Rennie Esq
J McCannay
County Voters list
050 Derives its name from being Situated at the head of a plantation. It consists of four thatched houses one storey and one slated one two storey, all in very bad repair - Property of Duchess de Coigny. 'Plantin' is the Scotticism for plantation

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