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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BLACKCRAIG WOOD Blackcraig Wood
Blackcraig Wood
Walter Bell
James Mathews
035 [Situation] 2 Miles SE by E [South East by East] of the village of Minnigaff
A tolerable sized plantation on Blackcraig District consisting of copse wood. it is the property of R . N. Dunbar Esq of Machermore.
CHALLOCH CROFT Challoch Croft
[Orille A wood orgrove]
Francis McGuffie.
Walter Bell.
035 [Situation] About 2 1/8 miles SE by E [South East by East] of Minnigaff
A small house with 9 acres of land attached on the estate of R Nugent Dunbar Esq of Machermore.
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE Solomons Temple
Solomons Temple
Francis McGuffie. Walter Bell. 035 [Situation] About 2 1/4 miles SE by E [South East by East] of Minnigaff village
This name applies to an emminence on Blackcraig District . it derived its name from an old man named Solomon Bailie who built a house in the vicinity and as a sobriquet it was called the given name, on it is a Trig: [Trigonometrical] Station called by the Trig: [Trigonometrical] party. "Solomons Temple."

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