OS1/10/47/95

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LOCHAR MOSS Lochar Moss
Lochar Moss
Lochar Moss
Revd. [Reverend] A B Murray
Blacks Map Scotland
Gazetter of Great Britain
049; 050; 056 [Situation] on Wn. [Western] and S. South] sides of this Parish.
A bog where vast quantities of peats are dug. some parts of it are very wet and soft, the entire of it on this Plan is the property of Mr Alexander Grierson, Rockhall.
Here fir, birch and hazel trees also anchors, pieces of vessels have been dug up - the rural poet says
First a wood
Then a sea
Next a Moss
and still will be.
GLASGOW and SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY Glasgow and South-Western Railway
Glasgow and South-Western Railway
Glasgow and South-Western Railway
[Revd. [Reverend] A. B. Murray
Time Table of the Railway
Mr. Ireland
056 [Situation] Running S.W. by W. [South West by West] through Sn. [Southern] division of this Parish.
A straight double line of railway extending through this Plan bounded on both side by a quickwood hedge

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Parish of Torthorwald Sheet 56.6 Trace 2

[Signed] M. Donohue

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