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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Fell of Laghead | Samuel Wilson Laghead via Gatehouse John Denniston Gatehouse William McCaw Shepherd Laghead via Gatehouse |
037 | A tolerable sized rocky hill on the farm of "Laghead' from which it derives its name. Upon its summit stands a ◬ [Trigonometrical Station] called by the trig [trigonometrical] party "Craigtype", after a hill which lies south of it. |
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| Wilton | Samuel Wilson Laghead via Gatehouse John Denniston Gatehouse William McCaw Shepherd Laghead via Gatehouse | 037 | A small rocky hill which lies at the western base of the "Fell of Laghead", immediately beside the public road whig leads from Gatehouse to New Galloway, it is on the farm of "Laghead" but from what circumstance, or object it derives its name, is not known by the inhabitants of the locality. |
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[page] 69List of Names collected by 2nd Corpl [Second Corporal] Mechan RSM [Royal Sappers & Miners] et Exr [And Examiner]
[signed] John Mechan 2nd Corpl [Second Corporal] RSM [Royal Sappers & Miners] 11th May 1849
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