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Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 121 - Town of Dunfermline, OS1/13/121

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[Page] 68a

Greenbank
St Helens Feby [February] 7th 1855

Sir
I duly received your esteemed
favor of date Jany. [January] 27th; enclosing tracing of part
of Ordnance plan Dunfermline, I am very much
obliged to Lt [Lieutenant] Colonel James for his kindness and
also to you for sending it - I would have done my-
self the pleasure of addressing you before now had
I not been so much from home Lately, and I hope
you will excuse me in this -
I have looked very carefully
over the plan and as you request me to make any
remarks which might occur to me respecting it. I
will do so in one or two matters - as under noted -
1st. You have the, words "The Pend" I would humbly
suggest that these words be erazed & the following
substituted - viz - let the word "Pend" be neatly
engraved in the plainest letters over where you have
it crossd [crossed] - that is the pend - Kings celler & kitchen
should be inserted where the word The is - viz. - on
the right and close to the two round red dots indicating
pillars have "The Kings Celler" between the pillar
dots put the word "and" then Kitchen under it
and this part will be all right
2d Immediately above "The Pend" you have "Remains
of the Queens House", - scarcely a vestige of this building
remains - only a low wall which only the eye of the Antiquarian
can detect and which forms part of the palace wall next
to the Street - instead of "Remains" I would have the
word Site - viz. "Site of the Queens House" - This
building was erected in 1600 by Queen Anne consort of
King James 6th became ruinous - so ruinous in 1797
that in this year it was removed -
3d. In the "old Burial Ground" you have "Supposed
Site of Wallace's Mothers Grave", I have long disputed the
accuracy of this - History is quite silent on the Subject
and even tradition is uncertain if I may use such a phrase
Sir William Wallace was "in ye foreste of Dumfermalyn in 1304"

[Faint Note] -- [Reverend] Chalmers
[......] it is [?]
not the Kitchen
[Initialled] JB

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Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 121 - Town of Dunfermline, OS1/13/121

This volume contains information on the place names found in the town of Dunfermline.

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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