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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SALTCOATS Saltcoats
Saltcoats
Saltcoats
Salt Cotes
Salt Coats
Saltcoats
S. D. Sherriff
Peter Scott
Mr Shepherd
Johnstons Co. [County] Map
Co. [County] Map (1799)
Stat Acct [Statistical Account] 1841
004 [Situation] About 1 1/4 Mile N. N. E. [North North East] from Luffness House
A farm house having extensive offices (including a thrashing machine) attached. Occupied by S. D. Sheriff. The property of Mr Hope of Luffness.
SALTCOATS CASTLE (Ruins of) Castle (ruins of)
Saltcoats Castle (ruins of)
Castle (ruins of)
Saltcoats Castle
Saltcoats Castle
James Shepherd
Revd. [Reverend] Mr Smith,
Mr John Tait
R. Thomson
004 [Situation] Adjoining Saltcoats House
The ruins of an ancient castle near Saltcoats house, the only portions remaining are the E and W. [East and West] walls and a portion of the Western turret.
"Saltcoats in this parish, now a ruin, belonged to an ancient family of the name of Livingston. Nisbit in his Heraldry notices a seal inscribed Sig. [Sigillum] Patricie Livingstoun de Saltcoat, 1593. The first of the family is said to have received a grant of land extending from Gulane point to North Berwick Law, for having destroyed a boar which infested the neighbourhood" See Stat Acct. [Statistical Account] 1841.

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Parish of Dirleton

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