OS1/11/47/35
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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DOD HILL | Dod Hill | Robert Murray Spittal R. Laing Unthank |
017 | A small heathy & arable hill upon the farm of Spittal and a little north of the house. |
SPITTAL | Spittal | Revd. [Reverend] S. Moncrieff Penicuick Manse Co. [County] Map |
017 | A neatly built farm house with suitable offices and a large farm attached, in the Catholic era of this country an Hospice stood upon this estate (Newhall) in which the indigent traveller found food & shelter by a clause in the charter of the estate the benighted wanderer is still entitled to receive gratuitously a nights lodging at this farm house, for which purpose a wretched shed with a litter is still kept. The ancient Hospital is said to have (the present name being an abbreviation) stood upon the Pentland range north of the present house. |
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