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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
DIVET HA' WOOD Divet Ha' Wood A Douglas
Mr J Weader
J Kerss
015.05 An extensive Plantation chiefly Forest trees. North of Woodside having narrow belts in different directions and joined by Kerss' Wood on the North West. The name is derived from the circumstance. Divets having been cut from it.

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Parish of Ancrum
Sheet 15.9 Roxburgh
[Page] 6a

Divet - A thin flat oblong turf used for covering cottages also for fuel. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary

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