OS1/34/39/9

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  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. West Lothian OS Name Books, 1855-1859
  4. West Lothian volume 39
  5. OS1/34/39/9
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Supposed Site of ST MAGDALENS HOSPITIUM or HOSTILLARIE Supposed Site of St. Magdalen's Hospital Mr Brockley
Mr Waldie Linlithgow		 002 [Situation] Nearly a chain S. [South] by West of St. Magdalens This is the supposed site of the Hospital or Hospitium dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene where travellers were found lodgings And entertainment for a night when they were not able to pay for it in any of the Inns of the Town

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Parish of Linlithgow
Sheet 2

[Note] It will be seen by the extracts in the following pages that this establishment was a sort of Inn or as it was called in the Scots dialect an "hostillarie" see Jamieson's Scotch Dictionary. It will be also seen that the Latin name Hospitium has been frequently applied to this establishment.

  Transcribers who have contributed to this page.

Nora Edwards, louisetherapist

  Location information for this page.

Linlithgow Parish, West Lothian County

  Linked mapsheets.

Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Linlithgowshire, Sheet 2 Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Linlithgowshire, Sheet 2