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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
NETHER COOMB CRAIG Nether Coomb Craig


Nether Coomb Craig
Coomb - the side of a hill is the mode of spelling adopted in this district
James Johnstone Capplegill
David Johnstone Capplegill
David Brydon Bodsbeck
Charles Stewart Esq of Hillside
010 A precipitous rocky slope, situated below hound shoulder.
BIRNOCK CLOVES .
Birnock Cloves

Birnock Cloves
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James Johnstone Capplegill
Walter Johnstone Archbank
C Stewart Esq Hillside
009; 010 This name is applied to three ravines, situated at the Southern slope of Swatt Fell. The water that flows from this place, forms the source of the Birnock Water, or what is generally termed the Well Burn.

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Page 171 Parish of Moffat Sheet 10.9 Trace 1

Nether Comb Craig [situation] Near the Centre of Parish

Birnock Cloves [situation] 17 Chains West from Nether Comb Craig

John Jane Sapper R.E. [Royal Engineers]

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