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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDREW BELL ROCK | Andrew Bell Rock | Thomas McMorran, William Graham, Peter Paterson. | 051 | This name applies to two large rocky knolls near the head of Back Burn, which runs between them. The name is well known. |
| TWEEDS CROSS | Tweeds Cross | Estate Plan (Raecleuch), Charles Stewart (Factor, Moffat), Mr. Welsh (Errickstane, Braefoot, Dumfriesshire). | 051 | A name which is considered by the people in the neighbourhood to apply to the small pass where the road from Dumfries to Edinburgh leaves the County of Lanark and enters the valley of the Tweed. "The Edinburgh and Dumfries mail road passes up the Tweed, and leaves the Parish at a point 132 feet higher than that river's source. The locality at which it takes leave is called "Tweeds Cross", and is supposed to have been first a Station for Druidical worship of the sun, and next the site of a cross erected as a road mark in so wild and hazardous a mountain pass." - Fullarton's Gazette Vol. 2 P.776. |
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