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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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