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Ordnance Survey - Dumfries county, OS Name Books - Dumfries county - Volume 25 - Parish of Holywood, OS1/10/25

Continued entries/extra info

[Page] 7.
Sheet 41 Plan 13 Parish of Holywood

[Portrack Castle (Remains of)] (16th Century)

[Entry for Old Glasgow Road is scored out] Cancelled

[Signed] M. Donohue c .a. [civilian assistant] Febr [February] 1855.

Transcriber's notes

Portrack Castle - Orthography - written faintly/in pencil - German Text
There are initials JBJ below both entries in the Orthography and also initials? in the List of Names - Won?
River Nith - Orthography - written faintly/in pencil - [omitted by Bexal?]

[Entry for xxx is scored out] - follows Chr1smac -Moderator's format

check River Nith - Descriptive Remarks - line 3 last word appears to be Wastern rather than Western
- last line - I read it as '48' miles with the 8 distorted, but Fullarton's has 49 miles - see:
https://archive.org/stream/topographicalvo21842scot#page/450/mode/2up (& following page)

Ordnance Survey - Dumfries county, OS Name Books - Dumfries county - Volume 25 - Parish of Holywood, OS1/10/25

This volume contains information on place names found in the Dumfriesshire parish of Holywood.

Ordnance Survey - Dumfries county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Dumfries, which is in the south west of Scotland.

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