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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CARNWATH [village] | Carnwath Carnwath Carnwath Carnwath Carnwath Carnwath |
Rev.[Reverend] Alexander McLean Rev. [Reverend] James Walker Mr Walter Watson Statistical Account of Lanarkshire Johnston's County Map dated 1816 Forrest's County Map |
026.07 | A village about 3/4 mile in length consisting of houses the great majority of which are one storey & thatched with a few slated two storey houses. Its situation is not very central in the parish, it being more that 8 miles to its extreme northern point whereas the distance from it to the southern extremity of the parish is not more than 2 miles, and it is even less than that distance to its western boundary, - it is a baronial burgh, the superiority belonging to one of the branches of the Lockhart family, who derive the title of Baronet from it, in feudal times it was a place of comparatively greater importance than what it now is, - Ballie's courts having been held in it and even capital punishments inflicted during the feudal tenure of the Lockharts, - also between the 12th &13th centuries when the noble family of Sommerville were feudal superiors. |
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