OS1/10/18/23

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
POCKLEAF Pockleaf
Pockleaf
Mr. James Glendinning, farmer, Over Cassock.
Robert Thompson Esqr. Nether Cassock.
018 [Situation] About 1/2 mile S.W [South West] of Cassock Hill
A small house, - one storey high & thatched - on the farm of Nether Cassock, inhabited by John Little, shepherd. There are two, small, vegetable gardens attached. Tradition states that a leaf grew here at some period that possessed the virtue of healing the Small Pox - and that to that circumstance the house owes its name.
BUGHT KNOWE Bught Knowe
Bught Knowe
Mr. James Glendinning, farmer, Over Cassock.
Robert Thompson Esqr. Nether Cassock
018 [Situation] About 1/4 of a [mile] N.E. [North East] of Pockleaf
A small hillock situated at the South Western extremity of Cassock Hill: its surface is covered with rough pasture.
LAMB SIKE Lamb Syke See Name Sheets for Sheet 18 No. 5
DAVINGTON BURN Davington Burn See page 11

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Parish of Eskdalemuir
Sheet 18 No. 9. Trace 1

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