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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BROOMFIELD Broomfield - The Revd. Dr. [Reverend Doctor] Simpson,
James McColl. Crawick Mill.
James Lorrimer Crawick Mill.
006 Five cottages in tolerable repair
occupied by labouring men, sit-
-uated on the east side of the
old Sanquhar & Glasgow Road -
They are they [the] property of the Duke
of Buccleuch -
Broomfield is said to have
been so called from the fields in
its vicinity having been covered with
broom, some of which is still
pointed out.
ST BRIDE'S WELL St: Bride's Well.
St: Bride's Well.
Dr [Doctor] Simpson
Mr Williamson

The origl. [original] St. [Saint] Bride's Well
is covered by the Railway
so that this is a misapplication
of the Name, tho' [though] at sometime this
Spring may be a [?runner?] thereform. -
006 Respecting this well, Dr. [Doctor] Simpson
writes (Hist: [History] of Sanquhar) -
"A little to the north of the church
was the famed well of St: [Saint] Bride,
a monkish fountain, which sent
forth its limpid waters from the
sunny slope of a verdant bank;

Continued entries/extra info

[Page:] 123,
Parish of Sanquhar. -- Sheet 6-10. Trace No. [Number] 3.

[BROOMFIELD - Situation:]
½ mile South
of Crawickmill

[ST BRIDE'S WELL - Situation:]
30 Chains South
of Crawickmill -

[Page is signed:]
Thomas Matheson CA [Civilian Assistant]

Transcriber's notes

BROOMFIELD: two Authorities are assigned to Crawick Mill by a bracket, I have transcribed as if 'ditto'.

ST BRIDE'S WELL: the comment regarding the name in the Various modes column contains a word which I transcribe as 'runner', but I am not sure this is correct.

The Descriptive Remarks regarding ST BRIDE'S WELL are continued in the following two pages (quotation from History of Sanquhar).

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George Howat

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