OS1/10/5/19

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
POST OFFICE [Glencaple] Post Office
Post Office
Post Office
Revd. [Reverend] Joseph Lorraine
Robert Ward
Robert Rawline
060 [Situation] At South end of Nithside Place.
Very few letters are either taken or issued here as the Post man who travels between Dumfries & the Village generally takes up & delivers them The Post Mrs. [Mistress] does not receive more than £4 per year.
A one-storey house partly occupied as a provision store where letters to and from the Parish are assigned delivered and despatched daily.-
SHORE ROAD Shore Road
Shore Road
Shore Road
Revd. [Reverend] Joseph Lorraine
Robert Ward
Robert rawline
060 [Situation] From Sn. [Southern] extremity of Glencaple extending South along the Nith.
Name given to the Parish road between the Village of Glencaple and Caerlaverock Castle. A flat good road all the way
GLENCAPLE Glencaple (Village)
Glencaple (Village)
Glencaple Quay
The Auld Quay
Revd. [Reverend] Joseph Lorraine
Robert Ward
Robert Rawline
Statistics of Carlaverock
Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland
Johnstone's County Map
Intimation of a Collection in aid of Free Church
Colloquial Usage
060 [Situation] 5 Miles South from the Burgh of Dumfries
A Village and Quay or port on the East bank of the Nith. The Houses in general are one story high It contains a Post office 2 Public Houses 4 small shops one joiner and ship building yard. Free Church and Endowed School.

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Parish of Caerlaverock

Plan 60.4 Trace 4

[Signed] Hugh Doherty
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