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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LAIGHWOOD Laighwood
Laighwood
Laighwood
Laighwood
Laighwood
Laighwood
Mr. Robert Leslie Butterston House
Mr. David K. Nicol Schoolmaster Butterston
Mr. John Leslie Neilston
Valuation Roll 1857-8
Johnstone's Co. [County] Map
Dunkeld, its Straths and Glens
051 A large model Farm Steading dwelling house and offices, the former a neat two storeys high building slated and kept in good repair. the out offices are extensive and well laid out two storeys high and slated the property of the Duke of Athole
Site of PICT'S DIKE [Laighwood] Site of Pict's Dyke
Site of Pict's Dyke
Site of Pict's Dyke
Mr. Robert Leslie
Mr. David Nicol
Mr. John Leslie Neilston
051 The site of A Stone Dyke said to be 6 feet high by 4 feet wide enclosing a portion of land known as Laighwood Park, none of the original is to be seen as it was all taken down about 100 years ago to build the present one in place and on the site of the old one, a great portion of the present one is in good preservation other parts of it has been trown down for the purpose of enlarging Fields, Why it was called Pict's Dyke none in the locality can tell. The land it enclosed was granted by Robert II (between 1370 and 1390) to the Earl of Murray now Duke of Athole in whose possession it still remains

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