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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LAUGHENGHIE HILL Laughenghie Hill
Laughenghie Hill
Laughenghie Hill

Laughengee

Laughenghie
Laughenghie
Samuel McLelland
John Ferguson
John Denniston Gatehouse
Ainsly's Map revised 1819
valuation roll 1819
valuation roll ancient
037 [Situation] About 1 3/4 miles N [North] E [East] by E [East] of Burnfoot (in ruins).
A considerable hill on the farm, formerly called Laughenghie (hence its name) but now in the farm of [Grobdale] of Girthon. On its summit is a Trigl [Trigonometrical] Station called by Trigl [Trigonometrical] Party ["Loughengee"]
BROCK KNOWES Brock Knowes
Brock Knowes
John Ferguson
John Denniston Gatehouse
037 [Situation] 2 3/8 miles N. [North] E. [East] of Burnfoot (in ruins).
A few hillocks on the western side of Grobdale Lane, and on the farm of Girthon, Grobdale. It had been resorted by Badgers hence the name Brock the scotch name for Badger.

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Parish of Girthon -- [page] 7

Page [...]5 Laughenghie Hill
Page [...]5 Brock Knowes

[Note] "Broc" - a badger Gaelic Dictionary
"Knowes" plural of "Knowe" - a little hill Scottish Dictionary

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