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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SNARHEAD HILL Snar Head Hill
Snar Head Hill
Snar Head Hill
Snar Head Hill
Walter Anderson
John Mitchell
John Stewart
Rev. [Reverend] Robert Simpson
003 [SNARHEAD HILL - Situation:] On En. [Eastern] Parish Boundary about 6 1/8 [one eighth] mile N. E. [North East] of Sanquhar Burgh.
A Considerable hill near Wanlockhea[d] on the boundary between the Count[ies] of Dumfries and Lanark.
GLENDORCH RIG Glendark Rigg
Glendark Rigg
Glendark Rigg
Glendorch Rigg
Glendarg Rigg - - -
Walter Anderson
John Mitchell
John Stewart
Rev. [Reverend] Robert Simpson
Pronunciation
004; 007 [Situation] About 5¾ miles N,E, [North East] from Sanquhar Town.
A Considerable hill near Wanlockh[ead] Its Soil Consists of Heathy Pasture.
"It is Said to have its name from [] dark appearance of the groun[d] dorch is the Celtic of dark."
GLENDORCH BURN Glendark Burn
Glendark Burn
Glendark Burn
Glendorch Burn
Walter Anderson
John Mitchell
John Stewart
Rev. [Reverend] Robert Simpson
003; 006; 007 [Situation] From near En. [Eastern] Parish Boundary at a point 6 miles from Sanquhar Burgh, - N. W., [North West] to Wanlock Water,
A small Stream having its source [] Wanlockhead and falls into Wanlock [Water]
It derives its name from the dark ap[earance?] of the glen which it runs through.

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Parish of Sanquhar -- Plan 3.14 Trace 2

[GLENDORCH RIG - the following note appears in the List of Names:]
"Rig' adopted on the
Plans at the Examina
tion office

[GLENDORCH RIG - a note appears in the Authority column attached to the Reverend Robert Smith entry:]
See page 29.
In Duntercleuch Rigg

[Page is signed]
Philip Munro
Pte. [Private] RS&M [Royal Sappers and Miners]

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