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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CRAWFORD [parish] | Crawford Parish | Estate Plan (Colebrooke), Co. Map (Forest's), New Stat. Act., Gzetteer (Fullarton's), Origines Parociales Scotiae, Sheriff's List of Meresmen. | various | This parish forms the southern extremity of the County of Lanark, it is about miles in extent from north to south, and 8 miles from east to west, it is bounded on the north and and north-east by the parishes of Lamington and Wandel, and Culter, on the east by the parishes of Drummelzier, and Tweedsmuir, in Peeblesshire, and Moffat, and Kirkpatrick Juxta; on the south, south-west, and west, by the parishes of Closeburn, Morton, Durrisdeer, and Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire, and on the north-west by the parish of Crawfordjohn. There are no portions of detached parishes contained within the boundaries of this parish, nor is any portion of it detached in any other parish. Part of this parish was at one time called 'Douglas Moor' and the other part 'Friar Moor'. "The confines of this large and mountainous territory on the south and west are the marches between Strathclyde on the one hand, and Annandale and Nithsdale on the other. The waters that have their rise in its heights, uniting near the middle of the parish form the Clyde, which swelled by tributaries from the right and from the left become a river before it reach the Castle of Crawford. The loftiest of the hills is about 2450 feet above the sea level. The mines of Crawford have been famous for many centuries. They are mentioned, as has been seen, in charters of the reign of King Alexander II." (Origines Parochiales Scotiae.) |
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See correspondence of 3 August 1870 for the authority for the above correction.Transcribers who have contributed to this page.
Brenda Pollock
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