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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
EDZELL [parish] Edzell
Edzell
Edzell
Edzell
Edzell
Edzell
Edzell
Edzell
Edzell
Edzell
Edzell
Old Stat: [Statistical] Account
New Stat: [Statistical] Account
Fullarton's Gazetteer
Valuation Roll
County Map
Sheriff's Returns
Land of the Lindsays
Memorials of Angus & Mearns
Estate Plans
The Right Honble. [Honourable] The Earl of Dalhousie
Sir Thomas Gladstone Bart. [Baronet]
007; 013; 014; 019; 020 "The name of this parish, in old times, had a different orthography from that now in use. At the beginning of the 13th Century it was written "Edale" and "Adel" in the ancient Taxatio, which was rated at a subsequent period. In both cases the word may be considered as essentially the same, signifying "plain or meadow" ground, & quite descriptive of the most valuable half of the parish, or that part of which lies without the boundary of Glenesk. In Rolt's life of John the 20th Earl of Crawford, it is written "Edgehill" & so pronounced to this day & believed to be the true etymon, from the fact that the great bulk of the Arable land lies from the Edge of the hill Southward. In all documents posterior to the date of the two first, the orthography differs little
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