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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of DRUIDICAL CIRCLE [Windmill Knowe] Druidical Circle (supposed) Parish Statistics
John Carruthers Kirkhill
John Charters Parish Schoolmaster
025 The circle stands on the open [---]moor, betwixt the [--] Windmill Knowes, and [---] Stefenbiggin Burn, [---]measures about 12 feet in [---], the stones are very large or firmly fixed and will be shortly removed for building purposes.
It may have some Druidical connection but [---] it is said in the district to be something of that but no grounds to believe correctly
[ Not worth notice as a druids]
STAFFENBIGGING BURN Steffenbigging Burn
Staffenbigging Burn
John Carruthers Kirkhill
Samuel Rogerson Esq [Esquire] Leithenhall
Mr Rogerson Fingland
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025 Gathers near Howslack and runs westward for about half a mile, after which it is called [---] Burn.
Stay-fin-bigging the building at the white steep land this particular description of this and seems the etymology as originally used as also [---]

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138 Parish of Wamphray Sheet 25.13 Trace 6
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Steffenbigging Burn situation From the junction of Stream 8 Chains South from Drygill Rig South West to Kirk Burn

Note " To set up ones staff" a quaint Scottish legal phrase was applied when parties took up a residence acquired from another by the resignation of a baton or staff. As no information can be obtained in locality respecting the derivation of the name, probably hence the origin of the name - bigging in the Scottish signifies a house. M [Turnor]
John Jane Sapper Royal Engineers

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