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Ordnance Survey - Dumfries county, OS Name Books - Dumfries county - Volume 44 - Parish of Sanquhar, OS1/10/44

Continued entries/extra info

[Page:] 165,
Parish of Sanquhar -- Plan 7-10 Trace 5

[MIDDLE MOOR - List of Names and Various names columns, the entry is circled and contains the comments:]
Moor
adopted on the Plan

See the Orthography
in Page 245

[MIDDLE MOOR - Situation:]
Between Glenclach
Burn and Menock Water. -

[DRY LOUP - the Descriptive Remarks column contains the following regarding the strike out of the entry:]
The word Loup as applicable to a Stream
Signifies a dry Stream or perhaps rather a certain
portion so shallow or dry that one with safety
may jump or loup acrofs [across] it. - Dry Loup is
therefore a glaring redundancy. -

[Page is signed:]
Hugh Doherty
Civil [Civilian] Assistant

Transcriber's notes

DRY LOUP - the name entry has been struck out. See also the comment about this in Descriptive Remarks.

Ordnance Survey - Dumfries county, OS Name Books - Dumfries county - Volume 44 - Parish of Sanquhar, OS1/10/44

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

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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