OS1/30/6/27E

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Ordnance Survey Office
Kelso 12th August 1859 [12 Aug 1859]

Sir
I have received Instructions
to pay the utmost attention
to the orthography
of names on the Plans
of the Government Survey
of Scotland, and as a
question has arisen
respecting the mode to
be adopted in writing
Innerleithen, or Inverleithen
Parish, Co. [County] of Peebles, I
shall feel obliged
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Peebles 10 August 1859 [10 Aug 1859]

Sir
The name of the
Parish you refer to is spelt in
The Law Courts
Leases & conveyancy of
Property
Wills and Bequests
Innerleithen, & the
same mode of Spelling
is otherwise generally
used. I have examined the Titles
of two of the oldest
families in the county
(whose properties are in
that parish) from
1675 downwards &
Innerleithen is
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