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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
THE LOCH The Loch
The Loch
W. Forbes Esqr.
George Cuthill
Craigend
005 This name applies to a portion of a deep flat glen lying between Bowden Hill and Lochcote House, in which was a small loch, but it has been drained many years and its bed now afford a very strong rough pasture, it is sometimes flooded after heavy rains - at the N.W. [North West] corner is a sluice and a small building called Eel Ark, the former allowing egress to the water by a Covered drain & issuing at a small port nearly ½ a mile [West by North]. The Ark was for the purpose of retaining any eels that might get into it - The property of W.Forbes Esqr. -
Situation : About ⅛ miles N.E. [North East] of Lochcote
EEL ARK Eel Ark
Eel Ark
Eel Ark
W. Forbes Esqr.
George Cuthill
Craigend
Sibbald's History of Linlithgowshire
005 Situation : 14 chains North North West of Lochcote
This name applies to a portion of a deep flat glen lying between Bowden Hill and Lochcote House, in which was a small loch, but it has been drained many years and its bed now afford a very strong rough pasture, it is sometimes flooded after heavy rains - at the N.W. [North West] corner is a sluice and a small building called Eel Ark, the former allowing egress to the water by a Covered drain & issuing at a small port nearly ½ a mile [West by North]. The Ark was for the purpose of retaining any eels that might get into it - The property of W.Forbes Esqr. -

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There is no separate entry for Eel Ark - it has been duplicated as it is relevant to both entries.

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