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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
COALSTON CASTLE Coalston Castle
Coalston Castle
Coalston Castle
John Walker
Thomas E Macfadyen
Matthew Young
040 This is the uausal name given to a thatched cothouse in bad repair. It is not built upon the site of an antiquity nor near one. It has probably derived the name Castle from the peculiar construction of the upper storey of the dwelling house
COALSTON Coalston
Coalston
Coalston
John Walker
Thomas E Macfadyen
Matthew Young
040 A small thatched cothouse in bad repair. The name is derived from an adjacent enclosure in which were several coalpits.
PLANTINHEAD Plantinhead
Plantinhead
Plantinhead
John Walker
Thomas E Macfadyen
Matthew Young
040 A small thached Cothouse in bad repair. Plantin is this name is not the English word plantain but a Scotticism for planting or Plantation. Th e house is situated at the head of a belt of mixed wood.

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