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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
YESTER WATER Contd [Continued] GIFFORD WATER Yester Water
Gifford Water
Gifford Water
Gifford Water
for Yester Water as before
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015 [Continued] of Hobgoblin Hall,from which point it takes the name of Gifford or Yester Water, passing through Yester Demesne by Gifford Village, taking a N.W. [North West] direction, and assuming the Names of the several localities through which it passes until it falls into the River Tyne West of Lennox Love.
This stream is popularly Called "Gifford Water" but the Marquis of Tweedale and his factor insist on it being written Yester Water, after the Name of the Mansion

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List of Names collected by James McAnulty C.A [Civilian Assistant]
Plan 15C Trace 3

[Signed] James McAnulty

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