OS1/32/7/16

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Gray Stone Gray Stone
Gray Stone
Neil McPherson, Shepherd
J. Davie, Waterhead
022 A large whinstone about 10 or twelve feet square but not of regular form on the brow of what is styled the "Drove Hill". "Gray Stone" is altogether a local name which appears to be so named by the people in the immediate neighborhood.
Bin Burn Bin Burn
Bin Burn
Bin Burn
Bin Burn
Binn Burn
Bin Carron Burn
(Meikle Bin)
R. Kincaid Bencloich Mains
D. Ferguson Shepherd
N. McPherson Shepherd
D. Foyers Knowehead
Estate map of Woodhead
Estate map of Glorat
New Statl. [Statistical] Account (authority for Bin)
022 A Burn which flows from the west side of "Lecket Hill", where it rises, to the Carron, passing along the foot of that high hill called the "Meikle Bin" (in Fintry Parish) and dividing the parishes of Campsie and Fintry from about ½ a mile from where it rises to its junction with Carron Water. It takes its name "Bin" from the "Meikle Bin", which is well known, and no authority can be found to agree with the form given on the Glorat Estate map, nor on the Woodhead Est. [Estate] Map

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Co. [County] Stirling -- Campsie Parish

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