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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
WINTERMUIR BURN Wintermuir Burn [Situation] Western Boundy [Boundary] of Skirling Ph [Parish]

Described in the sheets of 11 No. 10.
CANDY BURN Candy Burn
Candy Burn
Candy Burn
Candy Burn
George Ramsay Par. [Parish] School
Thomas Noble
Robert Noble
Adam Proudfoot
011 [Situation] Western Portion of Skirling Ph [Parish]

A Stream which rises on the Farm of Brownsbank, in Lanarkshire, at a Copious Spring Well Called the "Lady's Well" and flows in a Westerly direction by Candy Mill, to the Road near Wintermuir Farmho [Farmhouse] where it takes the name "Wintermuir Burn"; thence to the Turnpike Road leading from Skirling to Biggar, where it changes to "Spittal Burn"; thence southwards by Skirling Mill, & Spittal, and falls into the Biggar Water a short distance below Skirling Mains. It forms the Co. [County] Boundary, here, between Peebles and Lanark.

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Parish of Skirling -- Sheet 11 No 6 -- Trace 1

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