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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
WHITHORN Whithorn
Whithorn
Whitehorn
Whitehorn
Whithorn
Whithorn
Whithorn
Revd [Reverend] C. Nicholson
Provost Boroadfoot
Ainslies Map 1782
Royl Engrs [Royal Engineers] Map 1819
Stat Acct [Statistical Account] of Wigtown 1841
Chalmers Caledonia Vol [Volume] 3 P [Page] 410
George McHaffie Esqr.
034 [Situation] In the SW [South West] Side of the Parish of Whithorn.
A Royal Burgh situated 11 miles S [South] of Wigtown 18 miles S [South] of Newton Stewart 32 ESE [East South East] of Stranraer 40 E [East] by S [South] of Port Patrick 97 S [South] of Glasgow & 113 3/4 S.W. [South West] of Edinburgh and about the centre of the Parish of Whithorn. It consists of a principal Street about three quarters of a mile in length and crossed near the middle by The Kitt there are Several public Pumps & a weighing Machine in the Street, and a few very brief and unimportant Alleys diverging on the E [East] side thro' [through] only one of which is a thoroughfare. The Main Street is very irregular and crooked having many abrupt turns (See next page)

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[Page] 59 -- Parish of Whithorn
Form no 136
Page 157 -- Whithorn

[Note] Whithorn - This is evidently the
Saxon Whitoerne oerne meaning house
and thus the three names Candida Casa,
Whitoern and Leucopibia * agree
Whitehouses - the * Leucopibia of this copies
of Ptolomy should perhaps be Leeucokibia.
WDG

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