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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
GALLOWS HILL Gallows Hill
Gallows Hill
Gallows Hill
David Alexander farmer Ward
John Fife Farmer South Mains
John Arthur School Master
039 [Situation] East of Rescobie Loch.
A small hill or knowe on the farm of Ward, it was formerly used as a place to execute criminals in connection with the house of Turin.
BALGAVIES LOCH Balgavies Loch
Balgavies Loch
Balgavies Loch
Statistical Account
Fullarton's Imperial Gazetteer
David Alexander
039 [Situation] South of Rescobie.
A small loch on the boundary of this Parish with Aberlemno, it abounds with Pike Perch &c. The Arbroath & Forfar Railway skirts the North bank of it.
LUNAN WATER Lunan Water
Lunan Water
Lunan Water
Statistical Account
Fullarton's Imperial Gazetteer
David Alexander
039; 040 [Situation] At the S.E [South East] end of Rescobie Loch.
A stream having its source in the Parish of Forfar, it thence flows through a chain of Lochs. Viz, Fithie Restenet Rescobie & Balgavies, after leaving which, it flows in an Easterly course & falls into the Sea at Lunan Bay.

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Parish of Rescobie -- Sheet 39.2 Trace 6
[Signed] Charles J Fearnside Sr. R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]

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