OS1/11/105/173

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
VENNEL Vennel See Name Book Sheet 30 [Situation] Leaving the S.W. [South West] corner of the Grass MarKet
Descriptive Remarks in Name Book Sheet 30
PORTSBURGH CHURCH (United Presbyterian) Portsborough Church United Presbyterian Mr. Robertson
Mr. Hutton
[Situation] Near the South side of West Port
A large building of the Plain [---] style of architecture. The number [---] sittings are 812 there are none appropriated as free seats but all the [---] get sittings free & have access to [---] unoccupied. The minister is the Revd [Reverend] James Robertson. This church was rebuilt in 1828. It belongs to the United Presbyterians
BROWN'S PLACE Brown's Place
Brown's Place
Corner Ticket
P.O. [Post Office] Directory
[Situation] On the East Side of the Vennel
This name applies to a sort [---] small court on the east side of the Vennel. The houses are from 2 to 3 storeys high. occupied by mechanics & others

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Parish of the City of Edinburgh

Portsborough Church United Presbyterian [note]
Portsburgh is the spelling adopted in Easter & Wester
Portsburgh and is the correct mode to be used in the above
name.

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Words lost in fold

This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 35
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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