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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
WOOD BURN Wood Burn
Wood Burn
Wood Burn
Mr Gavin Gemmell Farmer Nether Whitehaugh
Mr K Smithe Factor on the Estate
Mr Hugh Anderson Farmer Townhead of Greenock
030 A small mountain Stream [with] its source from Moss hags [and] from Repshaugh Knowe on the [South]
from whence it flows in a [Southerly]
direction through Plans [24] -[10] and emptys into the Whitehaugh [Burn]
Derivation not known -
PENNEL BURN Pennel Burn
Pennel Burn
Pennel Burn
Craigengillan Estate Map
Mr Smithe Factor
Mr Gavin Gemmell Farmer
Nether Whitehaugh -
030 A small stream having [its rise ] in the Parish of Sorn and [running in] a direction paralell to Wood [Burn] emptying into the Whitehaugh [Water] forms the Boundary of the [Parishes] (Sorn & Muirkirk) for a [considerable] distance and on the Muirkirk [side] lately been discovered on the old [Horizontal seam] of Ironstone or ore - New [workings] have been opened near the [spot by a] Gentlemen named Houldsworth - [origin] not known -

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County of Ayr --Parish of Muirkirk

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