OS1/10/47/47
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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HAWK HILL | Hawk Hill Hawk Hill Hawk Hill |
William McKettrick William Lithgow James Richardson |
050 | [Situation] At S.Wn. [South Western] Extremity of Torthorwald Village. A small Hill near Torthorwald Castle, the name has been established many years. This name was applied to a Small Knowe tradition says that "When the Castle was inhabited and the sport of Hawking practised the Falcons were let fly from this Eminence," it almost cut away by the public road. |
SCHOOL [Torthorwald] | School School School |
William Lithgow William McKettrick John Hamilton |
050 | [Situation] At the Sn. [Southern] Extremity of Torthorwald Village. This is a Parochial school house in the village of Torthorwald, the average number of schoolers attending it are about 80, who are educated in the ordinary branches taught in English schools including (Mathematics, Classics &c) the Teacher is William Lithgow whose salary amounts to £31 and the interest of £160 of mortified money, besides school fees, a free house and garden. |
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[Page] 47Parish of Torthorwald Plan 50.9 Trace 6
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