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Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 128 - Parishes of Carnock, Dunfermline and Inverkeithing, OS1/13/128

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In December 1855 the seven sheet of the 5 foot Plan Dunfermline (Impressions) were sent to Dr Henderson by Capt[ain] Bayly -- and on the margin of Sheet 4 Dr H[enderson] writes "I have written down 'Aqua de Ferm' on the course of the water called the Town Burn -- in 1293 & 1455 it is distinctly named 'Aqua de Ferm' or water of Ferm -- the 'Ferm' of Dunfermline is undoubtedly taken from this Ferm Water, in 1540 it was called "the Tower Burn". And in a note in Pencil on the Sheet a little South of Malcolm Canmore's Tower he writes
"Dun -- the hil
ferm -- name of the water
linn -- the waterfall"
giving this as the derivation of the name of the Parish
Dun ferm line
Dr H[enderson] gives the names and the sites of several Antiquities not on the manuscript plans, and in pencil writes
"the above names and sites are taken from Carte de Dunfermline
"The Monkes bake with ye tree brods'
and do. bake with ye wyte parchment covering"
O.M.O 26th Dec[embe]r 1855

Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 128 - Parishes of Carnock, Dunfermline and Inverkeithing, OS1/13/128

This volume contains information on the place names found in the parishes of Carnock, Dunfermline, and Inverkeithing.

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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