OS1/13/97/98
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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JOHNSTON'S MILL | Johnston's Mill Johnston's Mill Johnston's Mill Johnston's Mill | John Scott Dumbarnie James Sime Drumeldry James Hardie Strathairly County Map (Johnstons) | 025 | A small but neatly built dwelling house with office houses all in good attached to it is a garden and about two acres of ground it is a feu the property of George Smith _ near it there was formerly a corn mill belonging to a man named Johnston hence the name_ no trace of this last now remains. |
NANNIE'S KNOWE | Nanny's Knowe Nanny's Knowe Nanny's Knowe | A Robb Dumbarnie James Sime Drumeldry James Hardie Strathairly | 025 | A Small circular hill on the farm of Dumbarnie. its surface consists of rough pasture and on its summit is a Trignl [Trigonometrical] Station called by Trig [Trigonometrical] Party Nannie's Knowe. a woman of this name was found some years ago. drowned within the Tide Mark of the Firth of Forth a short few yards from this. hence the name. |
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[Page] 98Parish of Newburn
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