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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CAMPERDOWN | Camperdown Camperdown Camperdown |
Adam Davidson Esqr. T C [Town Clerk] Nairn Burgh Maps 1832 Mr Cameron Occupier |
001 | A Farm Steading dwelling house and outoffices one Storey high thatched and only in tolerable repair the property of Sir James Alexander Dunbar Bart [Baronet] Boath |
| TORTOLA WELL | Tortola Well | William Grigor Esq. Solicitor, Elgin, Proprietor Adam Davidson Esq Town Clerk, Nairn |
001 | This is a Spring Well situated close to the high Water Mark of the Moray Firth, and to the North of the farm Steading of "SeabanK". This is a celebrated Well Know Well, and Know as Tortola Well, the story goes thus how it received the name. "A Gentleman lost his health in the Island Of Tortola, his Case was hopeless, he dreamed of this [Cr??on] and was told, in the dream that the water of a Well here would cure him - he came to Nairn and spent several days among the bushes and discovered a Well & from that moment felt Cure to be certain - change of Climate - habits, Air, food, exercise, drinking pure cold spring water instead of Jamaican Rum & Water, all aided by his own imagination effected a perfect cure - and Doctors said that a Similar course would cure anybody without a Dream - JM |
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County of Nairn
Parish of Nairn
[Arrowed to health] on the Island of Tortola
Ordnance Survey - Nairn county, OS Name Books - Nairn county - Volume 6 - Parishes of Nairn and Cawdor, OS1/22/6
This volume contains information on place names found in the parishes of Nairn and Cawdor.
Ordnance Survey - Nairn 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 Nairn, which is in the north east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.