OS1/26/19/95

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
COUNTY PLACE County Place
County Place
County Place
Provost R Brown
Mr William Hodge Town Clerk
Mr David Semple, Writer
012.14 This name is Applied to a Spacious Area Situated in front of the County Buildings, With Approaches in every direction, and imparts a degree of Grandeur to this Part of the town, it also embraces a Beautiful range of Buildings which extend from Moss Street to Gilmour Street, and are three Storeys high, With excellent Shops, and on the Whole renders the place very Attractive from its Situation._
RAILWAY ARMS INN Railway Arms Inn
Railway Arms Inn
Railway Arms Inn
Railway Arms Inn
Provost R Brown
Mr William Hodge Town Clerk
Mr David Semple. Writer
Signboard
012.14 A Second Class Inn, two Storeys high, Slated and in good repair, Situated at the Corner of Gilmour Street & Old Sneddon Street. Affords tolerable Accommodation._
Mr Baird Proprietor
Mr P. Costello Occupant.

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[Page] 95 -- Plan 12. 2. 14.-- Trace 7 & 8 -- TOWN OF PAISLEY


Memo, The Area in front of the County Buildings, has hitherto been generally Known as "CountySquare," and the Range of Buildings, which extends from Moss Street to Gilmour Street as "County Place," But the Authorities have now mutually Agreed, and decided, that the Whole Should be Called "County Place." _ William Newman, 2nd Corp. R.E. [Royal Engineers]

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