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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CHAPEL (Site of) [Chapelton] Site of Chapel
Site of Chapel
Ordinance Parochiales Scotias
Thomas Shearer. Chapelton
023.07 "There seems to have been a Chapel formerly on the land of Chapelton" Origines Parochiales Scotias. The last named authority, who is about 80 years of age, remembers a Font being dug up at the place marked "Site of Chapelton." The site of the Chapel is not known by any authorities seen or referred to except the last named _ Thomas Shearer, who had it from tradition. No ruins, or any remains of buildings (except that of the Font) have ever been seen at the place marked "Site " etc. The place, however, is known as the "Chapel Sink" from a hollow being here in the ground. The "Chapel Well" which has been filled up for upwards of fifteen years is supposed to have been very old. It was 12 feet deep, but whether it was

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