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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
OXNAM WATER Oxnam Water
Oxnam Water
Oxnam Water
Mr. James Simpson Ricalton
Mr. George Douglass Plenderleith
Mr. John Douglass Phaup
021.03; 027.04; 028.01 [Situation] Through Parish in a N.Wn. [North Western] direction.
A considerable stream having its source on the farm of Phaup flows in a Northerly direction and joins the Teviot near Crailings
KNOCK HILL Knock Hill
Knock Hill
Knock Hill
Mr James Simpson
Mr George Douglass
Mr John Douglass
028.13 [Situation] On the East of Oxnam Water,
A hill of a conical form, on the farm of Plenderleith the property of His Grace the Duke of Roxburgh
CIL SIKE Cil Sike
Cil Sike
Cil Sike
Mr. James Simpson
Mr. George Douglass
Mr. John Douglass
028.13 [Situation] South of Oxnam Water.
A small stream running through a deep cleuch on the farm of Phaup, empties itself into the Oxnam Water. There is no satisfactory mode of spelling this name, but merely Writing it from the sound, neither can I get a derivation for it, but is most probably from Syl, a contraction for the proper name of Sylvester,

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Parish of Oxnam -- Sheet 28. 13. Trace 2
[Signed] J. G Andrew sr R.E. [sapper Royal Engineers]

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