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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
DRYFESTON Dryfestown


Dryfeston
Dryfeston
James Wilson
William Jenkins
Walter Broadfoot
William Maxwell Esq
Crawford's Co. [County] Map
005 [situation] About 30 Chains E. [East] of Dempsters Glenmuckloch.
Dwelling, and office houses gar--- [garden] etc. the buildings are old, and in bad repair, this was once a farm-steading, but the la-- [lands] are now amalgamated w-- [with] Crichtonstown.
CRICHTON'S BURN Crichtons Burn James Wilson
William Jenkins
Walter Broadfoot
005 [situation] From an old gravel pit - 26 Chains S.E.E [South East East] [sic] off Dempster's Hill S.E. by E. [South East by East] to River Nith.
For descriptive remarks s- [see] - Sheet 5.3
WAIRD Waird James Wilson
William Jenkins
Walter Broadfoot
005 [situation] About 9 Chains S. South from Dryfestown
A steep bank covered with brushwood, and trees, situated immediately below Dryfestownh-- [Dryfestownhill] and close to the Glasgow, and -- [South] Western, line of Railway.

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Parish of Kirkconnel Sheet 5.7 trace 2

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

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