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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
TOWN HOUSE [Newburgh] Town Hall
Town Hall
Town House
Rev. Dr. [Reverend Doctor] Anderson Minister Newburgh
George Nicol Esqr. Newburgh
New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]
004 [situation] South side of High Street.
A large house two stories high and in good repair. It has an octagon tower at the north side, which is surmounted by a spire. There is a town clock in the tower but there are no dials on it. It is bearing date 1808. the time of its erection. There is a small hall and two side rooms on the top flat, a council room, two small cells for prisoners, and apartments for the Town Officer on the ground flat. Robert Burns is the Town officer. Besides the weekly court held by the magistrates and the town council; the Sheriff of Cupar holds a court here once a quarter.
SCHOOL [parish, High Street, Newburgh] School
School
George Nicol Esqr. Newburgh
James Wilson Schoolmaster Newburgh
004 [situation] South side of High Street.
A small house two stories high, and in good repair with a garden attached. The branches taught are Reading and Sewing. Miss Playfair is the school mistress, she has nothing but the school fees for her salary. The average number of attendants is 20. The house an garden are the property of Mrs. Tod. Dundee.

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Parish of Newburgh. -- Plan 4.D.

Town House [Note] "Town House" is the term adopted on the O.S. [Ordnance Survey] plans of Fifeshire as it is the name generally used in that County.

School [Note] cannot be written on plan for want of space

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