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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Over Scar Over Scar
Over Scar
Over Scar
Mr John Anderson, Broadgairhill
Mr Walter Elliot, Kirkhope
Mr John Dalgliesh, Potburn
017 ; 020 Over Scar is a Small Stream, with Scarry banks, rising on hilly ground on the East side of Broadgairhill Burn - and flowing into it.
Nether Scar Nether Scar Mr John Anderson, Broadgairhill Mr Walter Elliot, Kirkhope
Mr John Dalgliesh, Potburn
020 Nether Scar - is the Same as the above, and is a little south of Over Scar. they are generally called "Scars" in the neighbourhood, and are chiefly hollows, with Scarry Sides, and having Streamlets flowing in their bottoms.
Straight Sike Straight Syke


Sike
Mr John Anderson, Broadgairhill
Mr Walter Elliot, Kirkhope
Mr John Dalgliesh, Potburn
Jamieson's Scottish dictionary
020 Straight Syke is a Streamlet, rising at the north Side of Broadgair Hill and flowing into Broadgairhill Burn.
Whitson Cleuchs Whitson Cleughs
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Cleuch
Mr John Anderson, Broadgairhill Mr Walter Elliot, Kirkhope
Mr John Dalgliesh, Potburn
order from omo
020 Whitson cleughs apply, to a couple of Small hollows, having Streams flowing through their centre, off the north Side of Broadgair Hill, into Range Cleugh burn, a short distance above Little Range Cleugh.

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