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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
BELL'S BARNS Bell's Barns
Bell's Barns
Bell's Barns
Samuel Robertson
William Martin
John Broom, Kirkcudbright
050 [Situation] About 12 Chains SW [South West] of the town of Kirkcudbright.
A small Cottage slated and in good repair. It is said that in former times some Barns & other offices had stood here belonging to a person called Bell, and also that this house been one of them, hence the name
LONG ACRES Long Acres
Long Acres
Samuel Robertson
William Martin
050 [Situation] About 15 Chains South of the town of Kirkcudbright. [following description scored through] A large Park within the demesne of St Mary's Isle. It is handsomely ornamented with small clumps of Fir plantations. Isolated from Clumps of Thorns etc it was formerly the property of the Burgh by was exchanged for Land on the North Side of the Town And is now the property of the Earl of Selkirk.

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Parish of Kirkcudbright
Form 136
Page 161- Bell's Barns
159 - Long Acres

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