OS1/11/17/97

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BROKEN BRIDGE Broken Bridge
Broken Bridge
John Barrowman Muirhouse
Rev [Reverend] Dr [Doctor] Begg Alnwickhill
006 This name applies to a row of cot houses situated on the Burdiehouse Burn on the farm of Muirhouse they are thatched and in bad repair. It derived this name owing to its being situated contiguous to the old road which formerly passed over an old Bridge on the west side of the present road and is now in a ruinous state.
MUIRHOUSE Muirhouse
Muirhouse
John Barrowman Muirhouse
Rev [Reverend] Dr [Doctor] Begg Alnwickhill
006 A farm house built in the modern style of architecture with suitable offices; attached is a farm of land of about 70 acres occupied by John Barrowman the property of R Trotter Esqr. Mortonhall
EDGE HEAD Edgehead
Edgehead
John Barrowman Muirhouse
Rev [Reverend] Dr [Doctor] Begg Alnwickhill
006 A cot house thatched and in bad repair, attached is a smithy. which are both situated on the farm of Westedge

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P 6 D -- List of Names collected by Pte [Private] John E Daveran RS&M [Royal Sappers and Miners] 1st Examiner-- [Page] 97
Field Book [Trace] No 4
[Object Broken Bridge] House
[Object Muirhouse] House
[Object Edgehead] House
Ph [Parish] of Liberton
[signed] John E Daveran
2 Oct 1851

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