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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
KIRKHILL Kirk Hill
Kirkhill
Rev. [Reverend] S. Moncrieff Penicuick
John Cowan Esq Valleyfield
018 A small Village situated on a hill overlooking Penicuick & about 1/2 mile distant from the latter place, it has 2 or 3 public houses & a school house the latter supported by the Free Kirk fund. - The village is occupied by the workers at Valleyfield & Esk Paper Mills. it contains about 500 inhabitants.
ROADS Roads Rev. [Reverend] S. Moncrieff Penicuick
John Cowan Esq Valleyfield
018 A farm house with offices, & an arable farm attached, it is the property of Sir George Clark Bart [Baronet] Penicuick House. On Co. [County] Map the "Blinkbony" written to a house over this place. there is no such place.
VALLEYFIELD MILL (Paper) Valleyfield Paper Mill Rev. [Reverend] S. Moncrieff Penicuick
John Cowan Esq
Vallayfield
018 A large paper factory on the Esk at the village of Penicuick worked by steam & water, and employing 25 females & 170 males foolscap letter paper & envelopes are the principle kinds of paper made therein, it is the property of C. Cowan Esq. M.P. [Member of Parliament]

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