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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| DALMENY | Parish of Dalmeny | See Name Books & Plans for Co. [County] Edinburgh | 006 | [Situation] In the eastern Corner of the County Linlithgow and south side of the Firth of Forth. A parish in the north east of the Co. [County] Linlithgow Consisting of a main body and a detached portion. The former is bounded on the north &. north-east by the Firth of Forth on the east by Cramond on the south by Co. [County] Edinburgh and Kirkliston and on the west by Abercorn. It has a figure somewhat resembling the outline of a violin and measures in extreme length from Cramond Bridge on the east to an angle near Totling well on the 5¼ miles and in extreme breadth from Mound Point on the north to a bend in the Almond near Wheatlands about 3¼ miles. The detached portion lies a mile south-west of the main body is hounded on the north by Abercorn on the east by Kirkliston and on the south and west by Ecclesmachan and is in its greatest length about 1¾ miles and about 1 mile in its greatest breadth. The soil of the higher ground and of the detached portion is in general a shallow clay on a cold bottom. On the declivities & the low grounds it is a rich loam and in a few spots it is what has been termed perpetual soil requiring little manure and very fertile. On the [Continued on page 4] |
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