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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MONKS BURN Monk's Burn John Laing Unshank
David Alexander N. [North] Esk Cottage Penicuick
017 A stream rising on the farms of Spittal &
Westside & running in a southerly direction at length runs into the Esk east of Newhall House. tradition says that a party of General Monks army was detached here & that such circumstance gave name to the stream, as also to the hill (Monk's Rig) from which it descends, this is not so probable as that its name is connected with the monks of the religious establishment once existing at Newhall House, and what renders the story of the Parliamentarian Generals detachment more improbable is the existance of a Catholic station called the "monks stone" upon monks Rig.

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Parish [of] Penicuick

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