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List of names as written	Various modes of spelling	Authorities for spelling	Situation	Description remarks
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY	Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway	See Name BooK Sheet. 21		[Situation] From the General Station at Waverley Bridge, then to Glasgow Descriptive RemarKs in Name BooK. Sheet 21
SITE OF OLD WEIGH HOUSE [Lawn Market]	Site of Old Weigh House Site of Old Weigh House	Mr Morrison Mr Thomson		[Situation] In the Lawn Market. The site of this building was pointed out by the given authorites at having stood about the centre of the junction of Lawn MarKet with the Castle Hill and the West Bow. Mr Robert Chambers says that it was a plain old building used for the public weighing of goods, under the direction of the magistrates and was erected in the early part of the seventeenth century. It was adorned with a steeple which was taken down about the year 1672. The whole edifice, which had been long considered as an encumberance to the street and was demolished in order to make way for the royal procession to The Castle which took place on the 22 August 1822.

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Parish of The City of Edinburgh

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

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