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Ordnance Survey - Orkney county, OS Name Books - Orkney county - Volume 24 - Parish of Stronsay, OS1/23/24

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Orkney Island of Stronsay

Odin Geo Geo Eden, or Geo Odin,
Mr. Hume, Farmer, Hunton. Mr. Forbes Schoolmaster Stronsay Mr. A. Learmonth, farmer, New Millfield

This name applies to a little creek or Geo, of which Sir Walter Scott makes mention in the "Pirate", as having a superior kind of Dulce, or Dilish, which taken together with the waters of a well called "Kildengue" on the north end of this island were supposed to have great medicinal qualities, The Dulce of the Geo, or the waters of Kildengue are rarely if ever used at the present day, and so little intrest is now attached to either one, or the other, of these places, that they are rarely visited except by strangers, There is only one man on the island who knows the Geo and he is not Certain about its position. property of Col. [Colonel] Balfour Shapinshay.

Initialed J.Y.

Ordnance Survey - Orkney county, OS Name Books - Orkney county - Volume 24 - Parish of Stronsay, OS1/23/24

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

Ordnance Survey - Orkney 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 Orkney, which is in the north of Scotland.

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