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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Flea Shank Flea Shank John Gordon, Constable,
Arthur Geddes, Shepherd,
Mr Ballantyne Whitehope
011.05 A prolonged, lateral shoot, or spire, of Deuchar hill, so called from its being infested with a sort of flea that attacks the sheep, depasturing on it, but it is merely a local, or shepherds name, and of no general importance.
Tinnis Burn Tinnis Burn John Gordon Constable
John Anderson Shepherd
George Mathieson Shepherd
10.Six Inch; 010.08 ; 011.05 A small stream rising in a moor, on the South of Peatshank Head, Passing Tinnis Farm house, and after a course of nearly 2 miles in a South direction falls into the Yarrow a little to the East of the above house,

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Collected by Robert Young 2nd Corpl. R.E [Corporal Royal Engineers]

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