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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PENRIA HILL Penria Hill
Penria Hill
Mr William Welsh Romannobridge
Mr William Sanderson Damside
008 [Situation] About ½ mile N.E. [North East] from Boreland

A hill the surface of which is nearly all arable land, on the side of the hill is to be seen the remains of what are called the terraces, believed to have been Roman. It is also said that there was a camp on the top of this hill, no vestage of it to be seen now.
Site of WHITESIDE TOWER Whiteside Tower (Site of) Mr William Welsh Romanobridge
Mr William Sanderson Damside
008 [Situation] About 5/8 of a Mile S.E. [South East] from Boreland

This seems to have been a place of some strength as there are some huge blocks of Stone to be seen lying, where it is said to have stood; there are no traditions known in the locality regarding this tower

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Parish of Newlands -- Sheet 8 No 6 -- Trace 6

[Note -- Whiteside House] -- In the beginning of the last Century there were to
be seen beside the Churchyard, the ditches And foundations
of a Castle, from the Stones of which, according to tradition,
both the Church of Newlands and the neighbouring tower of
White Side were built. -- "Origines Parochiales Scotiea".

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