OS1/26/20/31

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SEEDHILL Seedhill
Seedhill
Seedhill
Provost R Brown
Mr William Hodge Town Clerk
Mr David Semple Writer
012.02 Extends from its junction with Cart Street and Mile Street, to its junction with Seedhill Road, which Occurs at the end of Seedhill Shawl Factory, Consists of houses One and two Storeys high, both Slated and thatched, and in tolerable repair, it is a very Crooked Street, and apparently no regard Was paid to uniformity at its formation. It derived its name, it is Said, from the Circumstance of the Corn which was in former times brought to the Mill, having been winnowed on a place which was called the "Mill Hill", And the Seeds from the Corn which Accumulated on Said Hill, suggested the name, _ Mill Hill is now a Garden, And is a portion of the Abbey Parish, Detached.

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Plan 12.2.20 Trace 9
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