OS1/10/44/165

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MIDDLE MOOR Middle Moor
Middle Moor
Middle Moor
Middle Moor
Revd. [Reverend] Robert Simpson
Mr. John Williamson
Mr. George Osborne
Estate Plan
007 A long ridge of Moor
-land bounded on the East by
the Mennock Water & on the
North west by Glenclauch
burn, it is Heathy pasture
Property of Duke of Buccleuch,

Continued entries/extra info

[Page:] 165,
Parish of Sanquhar -- Plan 7-10 Trace 5

[MIDDLE MOOR - List of Names and Various names columns, the entry is circled and contains the comments:]
Moor
adopted on the Plan

See the Orthography
in Page 245

[MIDDLE MOOR - Situation:]
Between Glenclach
Burn and Menock Water. -

[DRY LOUP - the Descriptive Remarks column contains the following regarding the strike out of the entry:]
The word Loup as applicable to a Stream
Signifies a dry Stream or perhaps rather a certain
portion so shallow or dry that one with safety
may jump or loup acrofs [across] it. - Dry Loup is
therefore a glaring redundancy. -

[Page is signed:]
Hugh Doherty
Civil [Civilian] Assistant

Transcriber's notes

DRY LOUP - the name entry has been struck out. See also the comment about this in Descriptive Remarks.

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George Howat

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