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Ordnance Survey - Lanark county, OS Name Books - Lanark county - Volume 23 - Parish of Douglas, OS1/21/23

Continued entries/extra info

12 [left corner of header]
Parish of Douglas [in header]

42.42 (1/2500) 42 trace 1 & 2 (6 inch) [in Situation column for Pagie Hill]

There are several cairns in different parts of the parish - one on the top of Auchensaugh hill, where the Covenant was renewed; another on the top of Kirkton hill called the Captain's Cairn.
Stat. Acct [Statistical Account - this entry in Situation column against "Cairn"]

On re-reference to the field, it has been found that there is no feature known by the name of Kirkton hill at present - The cairn called Captain's Cairn must have been destroyed.
Repeated searches having been made for it but no one can point it out [this entry spreading over several columns against "Cairn"]

Transcriber's notes

Auchensaugh Hill. The Description entry appears to be intended to read together with that for "Cairn" on the same page.
Cairn. No separate entries are given for Spelling or Authorities (see above) and the Description text spreads over the Situation and part of the Authority column. It appears that this entry has been used by the surveyor to make some general comments in addition to describing the particular feature. The portion of text relating to "Cairn" transcribed into "Continued entries etc" appears to have been written by a different person to the remainder of the text.

Ordnance Survey - Lanark county, OS Name Books - Lanark county - Volume 23 - Parish of Douglas, OS1/21/23

This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Douglas.

Ordnance Survey - Lanark county

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 county of Lanark, which is in the west of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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