OS1/11/107/14

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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ST ANTHONY'S CAVE St Anthony's Cave Patrick Harvey GateKeeper
Johnsons Map of Edinbro, [Edinburgh]		 [Situation] In the Queen's Park nearly 2 chains S.W. [South West] of St Anthonys Chapel
This object is now only a Small hole among irregular rocks of the Basaltic Kind, This was formerly the entrance to a Small Cave, but is now nearly closed or filled up. It is said to have been in Ancient times and prior to the building of the Hermitage near it the residence of a Hermit

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[Page] 14
Parish of Canongate

[Signed]
H James
Cap. RE [Captain Royal Engineers]
9' Novr [November] 1853

Transcriber's notes

This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 37
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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