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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Cromdale Inverallan
& Advie, Contind [Continued]
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districts of the Highlands of Scotlan[d] consisting for the greater part of hea[th] covered hills affording Summer gra[zing] for Sheep, and excellent cover for g[rouse] and narrow cultivated straths or valleys, which are not over peopled The Right Honble [Honourable] the Earl of Seafield is sole proprietor of the parish, whose family seat is Castle Grant, a commodious mansion finely Situated in the centre of the ancient parish of Inverallan. The name of the parish as shown hereon, is variously written by different authorities, but the one given first should be adopted, as it is strictly the legal name of the parish and is always used in the principal documents in connectio[n] therewith. "Cromdale" being only use[d] in documents connected with the ordinary parochial business of the parish.
According to the Act of Parliament past in 1870 to define the boundary between the counties of Inverness and Elgin & Moray with the exception of a small portion South West, the whole of the parish is now in the county of Elgin

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