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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
GALLOW HILL Gallow Hill
Gallow Hill
Revd. [Reverend] A. Currie Minister Duntarvie Castle
James Morris Grocer Woodend
006 [situation] About 36 Chains N by W. [North by West] of Duntarvie Castle

A scarcely perceptible eminence the surface of which is full grown Firs, Ash, etc. The property of the Earl of Hopetoun.

It is supposed that in feudal times, when the surrounding proprietors held their courts at Justice Stone; that they carried their sentences into execution on Gallow Hill.

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