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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CARSCREUGH BRIDGE Carscreugh Bridge
Carscruch Bridge
Carscrough Bridge
Carscreagh
Carscreugh Bridge
Bridge of Carscreugh
Carscreuch
Carscreugh Bridge
Carscreugh Bridge
John Douglas
William Kar
Thomas Wallace
Ainslie's Map 1872
John Henderson
George McHaffie Esqr.
Gazetteer of Scotland 1842
J Gibson Esqr.
John Dougan
017 [Situation] - 2 1/2 Miles N.E. [North East] of Glenluce - A large green hill on the left of the road leading from Glenluce to Newtonstewart and about 2 1/2 Miles distant from the former it is the property of the Earl of Stair
BRIDGE OF CARSCREUGH 017 Duplicate entry - in Index
BLACK HILL BlacK Hill
Black Hill
Black Hill
William Kar
Thomas Wallace
George McHaffie Esqr.
017 [Situation] - 2 1 /2 Miles N.E. [North East] of Glenluce - A large green hill on the left of the road leading from Glenluce to Newtonstewart and about 2 1/ 2 miles distant from the former it is the property of the Earl of Stair
OFFICER'S CROFT Officers Croft
Officers Croft
Gilbert Copland
George McHaffie Esqr.
017 [Situation] - 1 /4 Mile North of Newtonstewart. - A small dwelling house with convenient farm offices &c attached together with a large farm of good land. It is the property of the Earl of Stair, and is occupied by his Bailiff from which circumstance it appears to have derived its name.-

Continued entries/extra info

Parish of Glenluce -- [Page] 13

Carscreugh Bridge -- Form 136 -- Page 57

Black hill -- Form -- 136 -- Page 57, 60

Officer's Croft -- Form 136 -- Page 71


" Carse"- Low and fertile land generally that which is adjacent to a river.
Dr. [Doctor] Jamieson
Creugh" - Clay - Gaelic Dictionary.

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Bridge of Carscreugh has been left in as it is in the index.

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