OS1/24/37/43
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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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. |
Continued entries/extra info
[page] 43Parish 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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