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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
SHEPHERDSHILL Shepherds Hill
Shepherds Hill
Mr John Reid Marybank
Mr Grey Red Row
011 [Situation] About 5 Chains East of Fauldhouse Rows.
This name applies to 3 Rows of Houses one storey high and slated, all in very good repair having neat gardens attached; these houses are situated on a little eminence and before the houses were built. the name Shepherds Hill was applied to the "Knowe" and it is now applied to the Houses: they are for the most part occupied by Miners: and there is a Grocers Shop in the row; the property generally of the occupiers, and feud from James Waddell Esq. Crofthead House
POST OFFICE [Fauldhouse] Post Office William Russell Fauldhouse
William Elder Post Office
011 [Situation] About 17 Chains S.W. by W. [South-West by West] of Fauldhouse Rows.
A small house one storey high and slated having a garden attached; used as the Post Office for Fauldhouse and district it is a private house; and the property of Mr Storry Burnhead. there is one delivery and one dispatch per day. the former at 2 p.m and the latter at 4.p.m. it is a branch office attached to Whitburn, and the Letters one delivered by a woman who walks daily from Whitburn to Fauldhouse and back.

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[Note] This name to be written as one word being the usual & popular mode of Writing Such names.

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