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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
NORTH GRAY'S CLOSE North Gray's Close
North Gray's Close
Name above entrance
Post. O. [Office] Directory
[Situation] Extends from High Street to Old Physic Garden
A dirty narrow close extending from High Street to old Physic Garden, it is indifferently paved and drained, the houses are old, in bad repair, and some in ruins - They are generally six stories high, and mostly tenanted by Keepers of low lodgings, and lewd women, on the east side of the close is a tannery,
MILNE'S COURT Milne's Court
Miln's Court
Mill's Court
(name above) Corner Ticket
P. O. [Post Office] Directory
Maitlands History
[Situation] On West side of Chalmers Close.
A small clean and well paved court on the west side of Chalmers close

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Parish of the City of Edinburgh

[Note] Milne now always written with the final e

Transcriber's notes

This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 30
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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Bizzy- Moderator, Molly Miller

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