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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Black Andrew Wood Black Andrew Wood
Black Andrew Wood
Black Andrew Wood
Black Andrew Wood
Peter Clark (Forester)
Adam Watson (Carpenter)
George Turnbull (Carpenter)
County Map
011.02 ; 011.03 ; 011.06 An extensive, mixed, Plantation extending from near Fastheugh Farm to Bowhill N. [North] Lodge, a distance of about 2 miles, having an average breadth of about ¼ of a mile, and covering the North slopes of Newark Hill
The name is supposed by some, to be derived from a person who resided in the locality and who bore the epithet "Black", before his name (Andrew) as being highly descriptive of his physiognomy -
And by others, that the name of Black Andrew or andro' was of old the name of the hill on which the wood now grows.

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Sheet 11 No 2 -- Traces 5 & 6 -- Collected by Robert Young 2nd Corpl R.E. [2nd Corporal Royal Engineers]

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