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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
COLDINGHM MOOR Coldingham Moor
Coldingham Moor
Coldingham Moor
Mr James Hardy. Penmanshiel
Mr J. Smith, Dunglass
History of Coldingham
004 ; 005 [Situation] In the North West Corner of the Parish of Coldingham, extending east to Ph. [Parish] of Cockburnspath, West to the farm of Buskinbrae and South to the farms of South Burnhead and Hopestead.
An elevated and extensive tract of moorland, of late years a great part of it has been brought into cultivation there are numerous bogs & marshes a great number of which have been drained
and now affords good pasture for sheep & cattle, P. 90
LONG LATCH Lang Latch
Long Latch
Long Latch
Long Latch
Ancient Plan of Coldingham Common
Mr James Hardy, Penmanshiel
Mr Cowan, Tower
Mr McGregor, Schoolmaster
005.01 [Situation] In Coldingham Moor in the S.E. [South East] corner of the plan and extending N.W. [North West] and S.E. [South East]
A strip of rough pasture on Coldingham Moor. formerly it was a marsh, it is now drained and affords good pasturage.
'Latch' A mire Jamieson's Dictionary
OLD CAMBUS MOSS Old Cambus Moss
Old Cambus Moss
Old Cambus Moss
Mr James Hardy Penmanshiel
Mr Kerr Old Cambus
Mr Oliver Huxton
005.01 [Situation] In the Northwest of the parish about ½ mile West from Long Latch.
A moss in Coldingham Moor where the inhabitants of old Cambus are allowed to cut peats

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