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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PRIESTS BUTT Priests Butt James Fauld
James Barbour
016 [Situation] About 3.4 miles S. [South] of Bogue Fell.
This name applies to a piece of elevated ground on farm of Bogue & immediately at the S.by E. [South by East] end of Cha[pel] Yard & on which is sup[posed] to be the site of the h[ouse] that the priest belong[ing] to the chapel that exis[ted] here stood, but no wri[tten] record is extant to sup[port] this statement. Nevert[heless] this spot is well known by the given name......

Butt. A small piece of ground disjoined from the adjacent lands. Scott. Dictionary.

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