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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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CHAPELTON | Chapeltown Do. Chapelton Do. Do. Do. Do. |
Peter Robb Robt. Walker And. Muir Thos. Dunlop Sketch of Roads County Map Valn. Roll. 1814 |
010 About 5/8 mile N.E. by E. from West Calder | Two cottages, about [three fourths scored out] half a mile eastward of the village of West Calder. The name is said to have originated from this being the site of a Chap[el] belonging to the Parish of Mid Calder, previous to the Reformation. No authentic M[?...]dition of the place exists*, but it is said to have been in connecti[on] with a monastery on the border[?s.] The bell has been preserved and is now in Limefield House. - |
Continued entries/extra info
An obliquely curving arrow leads down left from exists [*asterisked by me above] to the three previous columns where the same hand has written:only Mr Walker is of an oppinion [sic] that it stood in a small wood immediately south of the present houses, called Chapelton, from the circumstance of him getting tesselated [sic] stones of different colors [sic] and forms. [signed below] G. Bray c/s[???]
Transcriber's notes
Note that the List of Names column reads Chapeltown, with Chapelton scored out beneath it.Again some of the right-hand text has been obscured by the binding.
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WILKIENYMIX
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