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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SPINNINGDALE Spinningdale
Spinningdale
Spinningdale
Spinningdale
Spinningdale
Mr G. McDonald, Merchant, Spinningdale.
New Statistical Account
Valuation Roll 1873.
Revd [Reverend] Mr Joass, Golspie
112 [Situation] On the Frith [Firth] of Dornoch, and 5 miles East from Bonar Bridge
This name applies to a Small Village, Consisting of a number of dwellinghouses, One Story high, four Slated, the rest thatched: with - Small outhouses, gardens, and portions of Arable land attached: the part property of E. C. Sutherland Walker, of SKibo, and Dugald Gilchrist of Ospisdale.
The Statistical Account states:-
"A village and Cotton manufactory were established at Spinningdale by Mr Dempster of Dunnichen in the latter part of the last Century, but the destruction of the factory by fire in 1809 has been followed by the decay of the Village."

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[Page] 117
Sheet 112, -- Plan 5
Co [County] Sutherland, -- Ph [Parish] of Criech.

Spinningdale -- [Initialled] William J. M.

[Signed] JW. Campbell, C./a. [Civilian assistant]

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