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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BUCHAN'S BRIDGE Buchan's Bridge or Moss Bridge
Buchan's Bridge
Buchans Bridge
Buchan's Bridge or Moss Bridge
Buchan's Bridge or Moss Bridge
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Estate Map 1857
A. Hervey
W. Gilchrist
W. G. Galloway
046 A graceful, Substantial, Freestone Bridge, of one Arch, over the Cummock Burn, on the Turnpike Road from Ayr to Dalmellington, and about half a mile from the latter place, both names are equally applied, Buchan the man who built it, and it being at the east end of a tract of moss extending westwards it is as usual to here Moss Bridge as the other - a County Bridge
SMITH'S BRIDGE Smith's Bridge
Smiths Bridge
Smith's Bridge
Smith's Bridge
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A. Hervey
W. Gilchrist
W. G. Galloway
046 A Substantial Freestone Bridge of one arch built by a man of the name of Smith hence it is Called Smith's Bridge, over the Water of Muck on the Parish Road from Dalmellington to Straiton adjacent to Buchan's Bridge - A Parish Bridge

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