OS1/26/14/23

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  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Renfrewshire OS Name Books, 1856-1857
  4. Renfrewshire volume 14
  5. OS1/26/14/23
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CASTLE HILL Castle Hill
Castle Hill
Castle Hill
Round Hill
Old Roman Camp		 Old Statistical Account
William Findlay "Horsewood"
Property Plan. Date 1805.
William Craig. "Whinnerston"
Crawfurd's History of Renfrew.		 011.02 This feature is a little to the South east of the "castle", occupies a very prominent position. Commanding a view of the surrounding country. It is of artificial structure and partly surrounded by a "Moat" on the South and East sides. According to the "Old Statistical Account" of the parish, this hill is supposed to be the vestages of a Roman outpost.
BRANNOCKLIE Brannocklie
Brannocklie
Brannocklie		 Hugh Barclay, Occupier
William Findlay. "Horsewood"
Valuation Roll		 011.02 A farm house having Offices and land attached. The property of the Heirs of James Watt, of Greenock.

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County of Renfrew -- Parish of Kilbarchan

Castle Hill
North from Clochodrick, on the other side of the hills, stands
an old narrow castle, anciently the residences of the
Knoxes. About 120 yards south east of this castle,
on an elevated rock, which overtops the castle, is a
green hill, all of forced earth. It is now called Castle hill". "This earthen hill is of a
quadrangular form; the sides facing the four cardinal points. A trench, dry out of the
solid rock, surrounds its base, on the East and part of the North and South sides". "Each
side of this hill or mound, is about 30 yards at the bottom, & 19 at the top. It is 7 yards in
height". "There has been an entrance into it on the Eastern side". "I am inclined to think this
mound has been a fort, or outpost of the Romans, when stationed at Paisley, and intended
to keep the inhabitants of the mountains in check". Old Statistical Account.

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Kilbarchan Parish, Renfrewshire County

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