OS1/26/20/37

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
MILL HILL Mill Hill
Mill Hill
Mill Hill
Provost R Brown
Mr William Hodge Town Clerk
Mr David Semple Writer
012.10 This name is Applied to a Small enclosure Which is Occupied at the Present time as a Vegetable and flower Garden, Situated on Slightly elevated ground Off the Seedhill Road and Adjacent to the Seedhill Shawl Factory, It is a detached portion of the Abbey Parish Surrounded by the Low Church Parish, When Abbot Shaw, the then Abbot of Paisley, erected Paisley into a Burgh, And Granted Lands to the Burgesses etc he reserved the Seedhill Mills and gardens as Well as About One half Acre Around the Mill Hill, it is Said, for the use of the Said Mills, Where the Several Persons who brought Corn to the Mills on those days, Winnowed it, The Kilns and Part of the Granary Attached to the Mills are in the Low Church Parish,
The Marquis of Abercorn Proprietor

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Plan 12.2.20 Trace 10
TOWN OF PAISLEY

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