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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BURNSIDE Burnside
Burnside
Mr Willam Shanks Farmer Turnheigh
Mr John Bishop Halfway House
011 [Situation] Nearly 3/4 mile S E by E [South-East by East] of Halfway House
This name applies to a House at present in Ruins, but formerly a farm steading; the property of Sir William Baillie Polkemmet
CULTRIG BURN Cultrig Burn
Cultrig Burn
Cultrig Burn
Mr William Shanks Turnheigh
Mr John Bishop Halfway House
Mr John Mellish Lodge Keeper
011 ; 012 [Situation] Nearly 3/4 Mile S. [South] of Halfway House
This name is given to a small Burn that rises in Polkemmet moor a short distance South west of Cultrig Bent; it runs in a North easterly direction, as far as Bridgeend, where the name changes to White Burn; it joins the River Almond a little above East Whitburn.

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Parish of Whitburn Sheet 11 No. 4 Trace 6

[Situation] Burnside - Nearly 3/4 mile S E by E [South-East by East] of Halfway House
[Situation] Cultrig Burn - Nearly 3/4 Mile S. [South] of Halfway House

[signed]
James Carpenter C.A. [Civilian Assistant] 26 Dec 1855
RD Kerr Capt RE [Captain Royal Engineers] 27 Dec 1855

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