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Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 95 - Parishes of Markinch and Wemyss, OS1/13/95

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10 Markinch Parish T2 [Trace 2] 24D

[Quotation - Balfour]
"About 1/2 Mile E. [East] of Balgonie, and on the same side of the Leven, is Balfour or Balor, an old building standing in the middle of some fine enclosures, and surrounded with a good deal of old plantations. This place gave the name of Balfour to a very ancient family, from which the Balfours in Fife, of whom there is a considerable number, it is thought, mostly sprung. In the 5th of the reign of Robert II. John Laird of Balfour dying..without..[continued]

Ordnance Survey - Fife and Kinross counties, OS Name Books - Fife and Kinross county - Volume 95 - Parishes of Markinch and Wemyss, OS1/13/95

This volume contains information on the place names found in the parishes of Markinch and Wemyss.

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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