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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BLACKBUSH COTTAGE Blackbush Cottage
Blackbush Cottage
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Blackbush Cottage
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Blackbush Cottage
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Revd. [Reverend] W. M. Walker
Mr Thomas Cuthbert
Mr. William Paterson
035 A very neat plain Small building one Storey high Slated and in excellent repair used as a private building - on the right of the new road to Ayr adjacent to the Free Church the property of the heirs of the late Alexander Ross Esqr Edinburgh.
MILL STREET [Ochiltree] Mill Street
Mill Street
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Mill Street
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Mill Street
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Revd. [Reverend] W. M. Walker
Mr Thomas Cuthbert
Mr. William Paterson
035 A portion of the east end of the Village of Ochiltree on the road to AuchenlecK and extending from the Cross to the gate of Ochiltree House and on the direct road to Ochiltree Mill from which it has taken its name - the houses are all one Storey high partly Slated and partly thatched all in good repair - at the back and on the South Side of this Street is a portion of ground called the 'Camp' which has retained the name down to the memory of persons till living - but now discontinued very in the village can point out its whereabouts many never heard of Such a name the place pointed out is at present leveled and occupied by Gardens attached to the tenements none can tell what it was like much less Conjecture by whom erected or by whom levelled - all that the oldest can Say that when they were boys it was called the Camp an no more
Site of CAMP [Ochiltree] Site of Camp 035 at the back and on the South Side of this Street [Mill Street] is a portion of ground called the 'Camp' which has retained the name down to the memory of persons till living - but now discontinued very in the village can point out its whereabouts many never heard of such a name the place pointed out is at present leveled and occupied by Gardens attached to the tenements none can tell what it was like much less conjecture by whom erected or by whom levelled - all that the oldest can Say that when they were boys it was called the Camp an no more

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Parish of Ochiltree -- Sheet 35 Plan

Ochiltree is derived by some, from the Gaelic Uchle,
Camp, to which tree is annexed, thereby forming
Uchle-tree or Camp-tree ** This may have arisen from
a place called the Camp, and the rising ground, now occupied
by the houses & gardens of the village, where there were at one time
many large trees, probably of several hundred years of age **
A part of the village is built on what was formerly a camp,
but of its history there is little or nothing known. -
Statistical Account (1842)

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Note: the entry for the place named "Site of Camp" is part of the entry for "Mill Street".

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