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OS1/21/21/12
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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GILLYS BURN | Gillys Burn Gillys Burn Gillys Burn Gillys Burn Gillys Burn |
Alexander Cochrane Holm Mill Forge William Nesbit Braidhurst John Purdy Motherwell George Goodall Gamekeeper John Christie Dalzell Steward |
012.09 | A little stream which rises south of Braidhurst & flows along the east side of the same farm forning the boundary between Hamiton Parish (detached) & Dalziel, from the point where boundary fence joins it, until it enters the "South Calder Water" at the east margin of this traced, Part of "Gillys Burn"flows through a glen in which, on the west side, there is a fine spring well of the same name (see description etc of "Gillys Well.") |
Continued entries/extra info
Header: [Page] 12 Co. Lanark Hamilton Parish (Detached)Gillys Well continued from page 11: it cannot be said to which the name originally belongs being mostly, however, applied to the well. The origin of this anme is not known but from the glen the burn flows through here, it is probable it may be derived from Gill - a glen.
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