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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
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.")

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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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