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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CHALMERS' CLOSE Chalmers' Close
Chalmers' Close
Name above entrance
P. O. [Post Office] Directory
[Situation] On north side of High Street
A long irregular close. leading [from] High Street to Old Physic [Garden] It is clean and well paved, [---] are chiefly old and in bad [repair] [---] generally three stories high. [have] wooden projections. or additions [---] over, (the close) In it are [---]
MONTEITH'S CLOSE Monteith's Close
Monteith's Close
Name over entrance
P.O. [Post Office] Directory
[Situation] On north side of High Street.
A dirty narrow close extending from High Street, and leading [---] north end into Chalmers Close, [The] houses are old and in bad [repair] Occupied by poor [workers]

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[Page] 90 Parish of the City of Edinburgh

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This Name Book refers to Edinburgh 1852 - Sheet 30
OS large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 - Scale: 1:1056

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