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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SWILL BURN Swill Burn
Swill Burn
Swill Burn
Mr Hardy Penmanshiel
Mr McGregor Parish Schoolmaster Cockburnspath
James Carr, Innkeeper Old Cambus
001.16 [Situation] Issues, two chains E. [East] from Clartybutts Well and flows North Easterly till it joins Boonsdean Burn about one chain N.W. [North West] from Girnall A small stream flowing from Clatybutts Well it is conveyed underneath the road and a short distance across field by pipes issuing at the side of[a] fence, from that point it flows in a north easterly direction and discharges itself into Boonsdean Burn.
BOONSDEAN BURN Boonsdean Burn
Boonsdean Burn
Boonsdean Burn
Mr James Hardy
Mr McGregor
James Carr
001.16 [Situation] Flows North East in the S. [South] plan line till it joins Hazeldean Burn about one chain South from Oak Brae A Stream or Burn rising on the farm of Old Cambus West Mains It flows [in] a north easterly direction this a Dean of the same [name] and [discharges] itself into Hazeldean Burn a short distance from the sea.
Note. Burn is the common [gaelic] appelation, for water. The u [sounds] long and somewhat like oo in Doom

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Parish of Cockburnspath -- Sheet 1 No 16 Trace 4

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