OS1/11/96/35
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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ROOD WELL OF GREENSIDE | Rood Well of Greenside Rood Well of Greenside |
Mr Alexander Hay Mr Morrison |
[Situation] E. [East] Side of Greenside End &, north end of Greenside Row A Pump at the north end of Greenside Row, formerly Rood Well of Greenside, and belonging to the Carmelite Friars in that locality. during the sixteenth century, at a latter period, previous to the City of Edinburgh been supplied by water from Crawley, this was a favourite well, but latter a pump was placed in it, and it is now confined more for the use of a few families in the immediate neighbourhood, |
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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 25OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1:1056
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