Volume contents
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEFFERMILL | Peffer Mill | Mr Thompson Peffer Mill George Watson Liberton East Mains | 006 | A farm house in good repair, the offices are very indifferent, with about 68 acres of land attached occupied by Mr. Thompson The house as I may well remark is rather to be described as an antiquity than a modern built farm house it bears date of 1631 and seems to have served at some former period as a place of defence assuming in its present state a place of strength, having walls of an Immense thickness, surrounded formerly with a ditch or strong wall, all vestige of which have long since disappeared there is an escutcheon over the entrance bearing a latin inscription from the translation of which it is evidently to have had some Connection with the Douglas family |
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List of Names collected by John E Direvan RS&Miners Pl Examiner
John E Darwan Dec.
Ordnance Survey - Midlothian county, OS Name Books - Midlothian county - Volume 15 - Parishes of St Cuthberts, Liberton, Duddingston, Newton, OS1/11/15
This volume contains place name information from the parishes of St Cuthberts, Liberton, Duddingston, Newton.
Ordnance Survey - Midlothian 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 Midlothian, which is in the east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.