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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
WAMPHRAYMOOR PLANTATION Wamphraymoor Plantation
Wamphraymoor Plantation
Wamphraymoor Plantation
John Little Roughlake
David Porteous Newton
John Sanders Newton
024; 025; 032; 034 [Situation] About 12 Chains East of Newton Village
An extensive wood situated in the immediate neighbourhood of Newton. Its wood Consists of oak ash and fir.
STATION [Wamphray: nr Newton] Railway Station
Railway Station
Railway Station
John Little Roughlake
David Porteous Newton
John Sanders Newton
033 [Situation] About 12 Chains East of Newton Village
This name applies to the Railway Station at Wamphray on the Caledonian Railway. It is a spacious building and well constructed.
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY Caledonian Railway
Caledonian Railway
Caledonian Railway
John Little Roughlake
David Porteous Newton
John Sanders Newton
024; 033 [Situation] From the Parish Boundary S.S. E. [South South East] through S.Wn. [South Western] district of Parish. -
The Caledonian Railway from Edinburgh and Glasgow to Carlyle traverses this Parish from the south to the north west. There is one station viz. Wamphray.
An Act of Parliament was granted for this line in the Session of 1845 and it was opened throughout its whole length in the year 1848

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[Signed] Philip Munro
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