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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAINS OLD PLACE | Mains Old Place, or Mains, or Old Place Mains Old Place, or Mains, or Old Place Mains Old Place, or Mains, or Old Place Mains Old Place, or Mains, or Old Place Old Place Old Place Auld Place |
J. Craig, Birdsfield Feuar Alexander Gardiner Priestfield Thomas Maxwell, Shott J. Young, Broompark or New Mains Forest's Co: [County] Map Johnston's Co: [County] Map Valuation Roll |
011.14 | A Superior dwelling having a good garden attached, and approached from the Parish Road by a good private road. It is built upon the Site of the Old Mains of Blantyre Priory, a house which, from descriptions given of it, seems, in some measure, to have been a fortified dwelling having a moat around it. The old house (Mains) was taken down, & the present one erected, about 50 years ago, since which time the name “Old Place” has been added, from the old house being, at the time it was pulled down, a very old place, or house. Mains is the original & proper name of the dwelling house at present standing, but it is always coupled with the modern addition “Old Place”. Neither name can be dispensed with from the other, the one being as much used as the other. Lord Blantyre, by agreement made with the Feuar when the Lands of “Mains” were feued, possessed the right of having a room in the house (over [continued on page 42] |
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