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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BENTS Bents
Bents
Bents
Mr James Hardy Penmanshiel
Mr McGregor. Schoolmaster Co'burnspath
James Fairburn - Cove
001.15 [Situation] On the north of the parish of Cockburnspath at the mouths of Pease and cockburnspath Burns between Ewe Lairs on the West and Pealand's Banks on the East This name is applied to a small rough bay at the mouth of "Pease Burn" - Between the high and low water, threefourths of the bay is thickly covered with round blue boulders. "Bent". The coarse grass growing on the sea shore
OLD LINHEAD Old Linhead
Old Linhead
Old Linhead
Mr James Hardy. Penmanshiel
Mr McGregor Schoolmaster Co'burnspath.
James Fairburn Cove
001.15 [Situation] About fourteen chains S. [South] from Ewe Lairs and twenty E.S.E. [East South East] from Linhead Four small cottage dwellings. on the side of the old road leading south eastward along the coast, and occupied by hinds in the employment of Mr Weatherly Linhead, They are the property of Sir John Hall Bart. [Baronet] This house has received its name from the Waterfall which is near it.
Lin is the Scottish name of a Waterfall
COCKBURNSPATH BURN Cockburnspath Burn
Cockburnspath Burn
Cockburnspath Burn
Mr James Hardy. Penmanshiel
Mr McGregor Teacher. Co'burnspath
James Fairburn Cove
001.14 ; 001.15 [Situation] Crossing the Railway from the West plan line and flowing in an easterly direction having Linhead and Old Linhead on its South Side and falling into the Sea at "Bents"

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The description of Cockburnspath Burn has been pasted over with a continuation of the description for Old Linhead

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