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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BLEACHFIELD Bleackfield
Bleackfield
Bleackfield
Bleackfield
Bleackfield
Mr Cowie, Inaltrie.
Mr Anderson. Leitchestown.
Duplicate of Lease.
Robertson's Map of Banffshire 1822
A. Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland.
003.13 This name applies to the dwelling houses. and a carding mill and was used in 1752 as a "Bleach Field", the property of the Earl of Seafield.
The Gazetteer of Scotland States that -
"In 1752, the then Lord Deskford - afterwards Earl of Findlator and Seafield - established a bleachfield in the north end of the parish, where about 1500 pieces of cloth and 1700 Spindles of thread-yarn were annually whitened; but a number of years ago this establishment dwindled to extinction".

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Parish of Deskford -- Co [County] Banff.

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M. Campbell. C/A [Civilian Assistant]

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