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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| HIGH STREET [Kirkcaldy] | High Street High Street High Street High Street |
Henry Beveridge Esqr. Provost Name on Houses Mr. James Birrell Baillie Fletcher |
091 | [situation] Running N. [North] and S. [South] through the sheet. A long irregular street extending from the east Burn to Linktown which is in the Ph. [Parish] of Abbotshall. It is the principal street in the town & contains many good shops. |
| BURLEIGH STREET | Burleigh Street Burleigh Street Burleigh Street |
Name on Houses Henry Beveridge Esqr. Mr. James Birrell Mr. Bremner Senr. [Senior] |
[situation] Branching E. [East] off High Street. A narrow macadamised street extending from High Street to the Firth of Forth. Its eastern extremity intersects the Volunteers Green. |
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| SOUTH LINKS or VOLUNTEER'S GREEN | South Links or Volunteer's Green South Links or Volunteer's Green South Links or Volunteer's Green South Links or Volunteer's Green South Links or Volunteer's Green |
Law Place Title Deeds Mr. Pearson (writer) Henry Beveridge Esqr. Mr. Bremner Senr. [Senior] (Dean of Guild) |
[situation] At the E. [East] end of Burleigh Street. An enclosure on the shore of the Firth of Forth, part of which is at present used by the inhabitants in the neighbourhood as a bleaching ground, the other or western part is waste ground. Previous to 1812 the green & other portions (now built on) were called the South Links, but from the circumstance of the volunteers of that period being drilled there the place has since been popularly called the Volunteers Green. |
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Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 107 - Parish of Abbotshall and the town of Kirkcaldy, OS1/13/107
This volume contains information on the place names found in the parish of Abbotshall, and the town of Kirkcaldy.
Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties
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 counties of Fife in the east of Scotland and Kinross in central Scotland. The boundaries of these counties were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.
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