OS1/30/7/110

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  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Selkirkshire OS Name Books, 1858
  4. Selkirkshire volume 07
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Ettrick Forest Ettrick Forest Chalmers Caledonia
Fullerton's Gazetteer
New Statistical Account		 010 ; 011 ; 014 ; 015 ; 018 ; 019 A poetic, popular & historical name for the whole or chief part of Selkirkshire - All the country watered by the Ettrick, the Yarrow, and their tributaries, and the Kindred districts watered by the Cadon, northward of the Tweed, besides the upper ward of Clydesdale, were anciently a literal Forest, the remains of the ancient Caledonian Forest - The most numerous woods were oaks, mingled with birch & hazel-
Excepting a few straggling Thorns, and some Solitary birches, no traces of Ettrick Forest now endure, altho [Although] whenever protected from the sheep, copses soon arise, without any planting.
[Signed] A Barnaby Capt [Captain] RE [Royal Engineers]
31 Decr 1858 [31 Dec 1858]

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[Page] 110
Parish of Kirkhope
[Signed] W Beatty

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Kirkhope Parish, Selkirkshire County

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Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xv (with Parts Of Roxburghshire Sheets Xii, Xiii, Xviii, Xix) Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xv (with Parts Of Roxburghshire Sheets Xii, Xiii, Xviii, Xix)
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xviii Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xviii
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xix Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xix
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet X Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet X
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xi Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xi
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xiv Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xiv