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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CHARTERIS CRAIGS Charteres' Craigs
Charteres' Craigs
Charteres' Craigs
Mr Thomas Carskill Wood Forester Stubholm
Mr Clement Brown Crown Hotel Langholm
James Elliot Esq Middleholm
045 [situation] 1/4 mile S.E.E. from Crossknowe.
A rocky peice [sic] of ground situated on White Hill near the Freestone Quarry over which runs a small stream and passes down the Kill Cleugh Is called after Charteres of Annisfield, one of the Scotch Chiefs at the Battle of Aikenholm; this battle was fought where the town of Langholm stands.
CROWSKNOWE Crowsknowe Mr Clement Brown Crown Hotel Langholm
Mr Andrew Lunn Drover Crowsknowe
045 [situation] 36 Chains S.E.E. from Market Place Langholm.
A small one storey house with vegetable garden attached situated near Kill Cleugh occupied by Mr Andrew Lunn Drover and is the property of Mr Little Earlston Roxburghshire
WHITA WELL Whita Well
Whita Well
James Elliot Esq Middleholm
Alexander Stevenson Esq Langholm
045 [situation] 1/2 mile East of Langholm village.
A powerful spring issuing from the base of Whita Hill; it suppies [supplies] the inhabitants of Langholm with water, my means of a reservoir.

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Parish of Langholm Sheet 45 No 11 Trace 3

[note at Charteris' Craigs] Charteris - the surname of the Wemyss family

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