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Ordnance Survey - Selkirk county, OS Name Books - Selkirk county - Volume 6 - Parish of Innerleithen, OS1/30/6

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being so kind as to inform
me how the name of this
parish is spelt in the
Law Courts
Leases & Conveyances of Property
Wills & Bequests
and at the same time
to state, which mode
of Spelling you would
recommend for insertion
on the ordnance Plans
ie. "Innerleithen" or "Inverleithen"
An answer on the
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this Office. As to the
mode adopted by the Law
Courts I cannot give you
any information.
It appears to me
therefore that Innerleithen
is the common way now
of spelling the word, altho' [although]
originally I am disposed
to think Inverleithen
the name, derived in the
same way as Inverness,
Inverary, Invershiel &
many others throught
Scotland, the Volumes
of this Record being trans-
mitted when complete to
the General Record House in

Ordnance Survey - Selkirk county, OS Name Books - Selkirk county - Volume 6 - Parish of Innerleithen, OS1/30/6

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

Ordnance Survey - Selkirk 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 Selkirk, which is in the south east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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