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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LOANHEAD Loanhead
Loanhead
Loanhead
Lonehead
Lonehead
Rent Receipts Lease etc
Robert Noble
Adam Proudfoot
Johnston's Co. [County] map
Armstrongs Co. [County] map
011 [Situation] About 28 Chains E by S [East by South] from Skirling Church

A Small Farmhouse with offices and a Farm of land attached, a short distance South from the Village of Skirling; Occupied by Robert Noble, and the Property of Sir W.G. Carmichael Bart. [Baronet]
SHEELING HILL Sheeling Hill
Sheeling Hill
Sheeling Hill
Sheeling Hill
William Newbigging Langlawhill
Alexander Noble Skirling Craigs
Robert Noble Loanhead
Adam Proudfoot
011 [Situation] About ¼ of a mile S. by W [South by West] from Loanhead

A Small eminence on the Farm of South Mains formerly used by the Miller of Skirling Mill for Shelling the Corn; or rather for Seperating the Shell from the Groats.

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Parish of Skirling -- Sheet 11 No 11 -- Trace 5

[Note] -- "By every corn mill a Knoll top on which the Kernels
were winnowed from the husks was designed the
Shelling-hill" -- Agr. Surv. Peeb. [Agricultural Survey of Peebles] quoted in Jamieson's Scottish Dicty [Dictionary]

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