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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
EAST COATES East Coates
East Coates
Coates House East
M. MaKay
William Smith
Post Office Directory 1850
[Situation] About 7 chains WSW. [West South West] of Melville Crescent.
A small neat cottage two stories high in good repair with office houses attached and a small plot of ornamental ground This place is the family residence of Mayor MacKay.
WEST COATES West Coates
West Coates
Coates House West
Mr. Campbell
William Smith
Post Office Directory
[Situation] About 16 chains SW [South West] by W. [West] of Melville Crescent.
A neat house of moderate size two stories high & in good repair having office houses attached. Occupied by Mr. Campbell. The property of Mr. Forbes.
TORPHICHEN STREET Torphichen Street
Torphichen Street
Torphichen Street
Corner TicKet
Inscriptn [Inscription] on lamp posts
Directory 1851
[Situation] From the south end of Atholl Place to St Cuthberts Lane.
This name applies to the north Side of a wide street extending from West Maitland Street and Athol Place to St. Cuthberts Lane. The houses are of a good class four stories high & occupied by respectable families. The south side of the street is called St Cuthbert Street from West Maitland Street to Wallace Place.

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Parish of St. Cuthberts

Form 136 Page
42 - East Coates
42 - West Coates
41 - Torphichen Street

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 34
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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