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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MACDUFF'S CROSS | Macduff's Cross Macduff's Cross |
Andrew Spence James Patterson Newburgh |
009 | [situation] About 2 3/8 miles west of Lindores. A small farm house one story high with office houses all in good repair attached to it is a small farm of fourten acres of ground the property of the burgh of Newburgh |
| BLACK CAIRN | Black Cairn Black Cairn |
Andrew Spence James Patterson Newburgh. |
004; 009 | [situation] On the summit of Black Cairn Hill. A Cairn on the summit of a hill of the same name. It is a pile of hand stones of a conical shape about thirty links in diameter and about six feet high it was collected into its present size and position at some remote but unknown period for a boundary mark on an undefined line of boundary between the Parishes of Abdie and Newburgh, on its summit is a Trigl. [Trigonometrical] station called Black Cairn. [Note] As this cairn was constructed merely for a boundary mark I think it cannot with propriety be written as an antiquity. |
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66 Parish of Newburgh Plan 9B C. [Common] Edge
Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 49 - Parishes of Abdie and Newburgh, OS1/13/49
This volume contains information on the place names found in the parishes of Abdie and Newburgh.
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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