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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LANGTON BURN Langton Burn James Grant
James Smith Polwarth
John Bell
015 A small stream rising on the Farm of Langton Lees. and flowing in a South easterly direction emptying itself into the Blackadder Water at Mouth Bridge. This is the Continuation of Foul Burn, & takes the name of Langton Burn, where it enters Langton Parish at Polwarth Mill.
FOUL BURN Foul Burn Walter Stoker. Herd
Thomas Browne. Langton Mains
John Moffat.
015.12 ; 015.16 A tolerably Sized stream which takes its rise in soft Marshy ground in Blag-rig farm, and flows into the Blackadder. This is called "Foul Burn" from the dirty States of the Sides and the Colour of the Water, it is called by different names as it passes through Various localities, before it enters the Blackadder.

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Parish of Polwarth -- Sheet 15 No. 16 Trace 2,3 & 6

Langton Burn [Note] This name does not apply to the portion of water connected with this parish.

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