OS1/9/5/19

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
NETHERWOOD COLLIERY Netherwood Colliery
Netherwood Colliery
Netherwood Colliery
Netherwood Colliery
Alexander Cameron Manager
P. Gray, Netherwood
T. Allan Westerwood
W. Dawson Factor
020 This name applies to a few houses occupied by persons employed in the Coal workings of Netherwood. the property of the Carron Co. [Company] It wholly applies to the dwellings, as the Coal workings, which are entered from the Coal Mine here, are nearly a mile distant from the mouth of the mine. To apply the name to the extent of their worKings would leave these houses without a name, which is generally given to them throughout the Parish.
IRON FOUNDRY [Netherwood Colliery] Foundry Alexander Cameron Manager
P. Gray, Netherwood
T. Allan Westerwood
W. Dawson Factor
020 There is, upon the same authorities, a Small Iron Foundry here /Trace used for casting wheels for Railway Trucks, & for making Rails both for the use of the Coal workings only. North east of this, upon the same
Trace, there is a "Basin" or small branch off the Canal which is sometimes styled a Bay & at others a Basin. Either would, it is considered by the
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Dumbartonshire -- Cumbernauld Parish

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