OS1/10/27/79

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CAULDDELL BURN Cauld-del Burn
Cauld-del Burn
Cauld-del Burn
Caulddal Burn
John Graham Esqr.
Walter Brydon Windshiels
John Erseman, Shankend
Charles Stewart Esqr.
034 [Situation] From Bracheny Linn South to Dryfe Water.
Takes its rise at a point about 1 1/2 miles above Windshiels, and flows Southward until it joins Dryfe Water. The common pronounciation of this name is Caudle, which signifies the cold hollow or cold Dale. Del and Dal Signify a Dale.
Cald, or Cauld signify cold. Calddel is a pure As. [Anglo Saxon] Etymology and signifies the cold dale.
BRACHENY LINNS Bracheny Linns
Bracheny Linns
Bracheny Linns
John Graham Esqr.
Walter Brydon
John Erseman
[Situation] 1/2 mile North from Windshiel.
Narrow glen planted with fir trees. So named from the Bracken or Fern plant.
A small hollow & streams, to which this name applies. "Brackeny Linns seems a better mode of arthography."

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Parish of Hutton -- Sheet 34.6 Trace 2

Bracheny Linns [note] - Brachen the female fern. Dr. [Doctor] Jamieson's Scot: Dicty. [Scottish Dictionary]

[Signed] John Jane
Sr. R.E. [Sapper Royal Engineers]

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