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  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Fife and Kinross-shire OS Name Books, 1853-1855
  4. Fife and Kinross-shire volume 06
  5. OS1/13/6/23
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
KINGSSEAT KNOWE Kingsseat Knowe
Kingsseat Knowe
Kingsseat Knowe		 William McDonald (Kingsseat)
John McDonald (Outh)
George R. Barclay Esqr. (Keavil House)		 030 [situation] A little N. [North] of Kingsseat farm house.
A small rocky pasture Knowe or Knoll on the farm of Kings-seat. Mr. William McDonald says that there is a tradition in the locality of this district having been much infested with Wolves Which Some of the Kings of Scotland used to hunt, And that in Consequence of the Kings making the Knoll their favourite resort for taking their luncheon the name Arose.

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[page] 23 Plan 30C Trace No.4 Parish of Dunfermline.

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Beath Parish, Cleish Parish, Dunfermline Parish, Fife County, Kinross-shire County

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Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Fife, Sheet 30 Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Fife, Sheet 30