OS1/30/14/171

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  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Selkirkshire OS Name Books, 1858
  4. Selkirkshire volume 14
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Ettrick Forest Ettrick Forest
Ettrick Forest
Ettrick Forest		 Chalmers Caledonia
Fullertons Gazetteer
New Statistical Account		 006 ; 07 ; 009 ; 010 ; 013 ; 014 ; 017 ; 018 A popular, poetic & 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, was 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, now traces of the Forest now remain altho [although], wherever protected from the sheep, copses soon arise without any Planting.
A Burnaby
Cap. [Captain] R.E. [Royal Engineers]
31 Decr. [December] 1858 [31 Dec 1858]

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Parish of Yarrow
W Beatty

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Selkirkshire County, Yarrow Parish

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Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Vi (with Parts Of Peeblesshire Sheets Xiii, Xiv, Xvii, Xviii) Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Vi (with Parts Of Peeblesshire Sheets Xiii, Xiv, Xvii, Xviii)
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Ix Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Ix
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 X Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet X
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xiii Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xiii
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xiv Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xiv
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xvii Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Xvii