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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Campsie | Campsie Parish Campsie Parish Campsie Parish Campsie Parish Campsie Parish Campsie Parish Campsie Parish Campsie Parish Campsie Parish Campsie Parish Campsie Parish |
New Statistical Account Fullarton's Gazetteer Oliver & Boyds Almanac Co [County] Maps Estate maps Revd. [Reverend] T. Munro Ph. [Parish] Minister J Begg Factor J Johnston Inspector of Poor Old Stat: [Statistical] Account Origines Par: [Parochiales] Scotiae Sheriff's Returns |
"A Parish containing the Post-Office villages of Lennoxtown, Haugh-head, Milton, and Torrance, and also the villages of Birdston and Clachan of Campsie on the southern boundary of Stirlingshire. It is bounded on the south by Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire, and on the other sides by the parishes of Baldernock, Strathblane, Fintry & Kilsyth. Its length southward is about 7miles, and its breadth is about 6 miles. The watershed of the Campsie Fells forms most of the northern Boundary; and the River Kelvin, here a small sluggish stream; traces most of the southern boundary. Part of the Campsie Fells rising to an altitude of about 1.500 feet above sea level, & cut into sections by deep romantic ravines and glens, constitute the northern district; the South Brae, an eastern prolongation of the Kilpatrick Hills, with an altitude of about 700 feet above sea level, constitutes the western part of the southern district; and the Strath of Campsie, not more than half a mile broad in the extreme west, but gradually expanding till it becomes lost in the great strath of the Forth & Clyde Canal toward the south east and the east, constitutes all the remaining district. Three principal burns and upwards of a dozen smaller ones come down from the fells and form [continued on page 2] |
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[Page] 1Co. [County] Stirling -- Campsie Parish
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