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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
HALL OF GLENMUCKLOCH Hall


Hall of Glenmuckloch
Rent Receipt
William Beard
William Jenkins
William Maxwell Esquire Chamberlain to the Duke of Buccleuch.
005 [situation] 3 miles N.W. by W. [North West by West] from Kirkconnel Village
A large farm, with dwelling, and office houses, thrashing machine, etc, all in good repair, is bounded by the River Nith on the west, & the farm of Knowehead on the Nith, belongs to his grace the Duke of Buccleuch
HALL BRIDGE Hall Bridge William Beard
William Jenkins
James Hyslop
005 [situation] Over River Nith 1/4 mile S [South] of Hall of Glenmuckloch.
A wooden bridge, of one arch, built across the Nith, on the parish road, between the farms of Hall, and Upper Cairn,
CELTIC or DEIL's DIKE Celtic Dike
Celtic or Deils Dike
History of Sanquhar
Revd. Dr. [Reverend Doctor Simpson]
005 [situation] In SWn. [South Western] district of this Parish.
An old embankment or wall from 8 to 14 feet thick at the base and about 5 feet high, having at intervals visible traces of an entrenchment, Supposed to have been constructed immediately subsequent to the Roman abdication - A continuation of the ancient dike in Sanquhar and which Authorities suppose to be the same that called Deil's Dike.

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[signed] John Jane Pt. R.S.&M. [Private Royal Sappers & Miners]

[crossed out] Hall Wood

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