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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Whitehope Rig Whitehope Rig George Ballantyne Esqr Whitehope
Revd [Reverend] James Russell Minister
James Armstrong Shepherd
010.08 An offshoot or spur, of the ridge that parts the parishes of Traquair and Yarrow. It leaves the ridge at a point to the east of Whitehope Burn and describes almost an arc, with the convexity towards the South, and concavity towards the North.
It is a low ridge from 200 to 350 feet above the Yarrow and terminating in a finely rounded hill (a little to the NW [North West] of Whitehope Farm ho. [house]) called the Nowte Hill.
Wurbus Burn Wurbus Burn George Ballantyne Esqr Whitehope
Revd [Reverend] James Russell Minister
James Armstrong Shepherd
010.08 A small inconsiderable mountain stream so called. rising in the glen between Whitehope Rig and Blackgrain Rig and falling into the Whitehope Burn a short distance to the East of Yarrow Kirk.

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