OS1/30/15/11

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  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Selkirkshire OS Name Books, 1858
  4. Selkirkshire volume 15
  5. OS1/30/15/11
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Ettrick Forest Ettrick Forest Chalmers Caledonia
Fullertons Gazetteer
New Statistical Account		 006 A popular, poetic, and historical name for the whole or chief part of Selkirkshire -
All the Country watered by the Ettrick, the Yarrow, and their tributaries, and the Kindred district watered by the Cadon northward of the Tweed, besides the upper ward of Clydesdale, were anciently a literal Forest, the remains of the ancient Caledonian Forest -
Excepting a few straggling thorns, and some solitary birches, no traces of "Ettricke Foreste fair" now remain, although, wherever protected from the Sheep, copses soon arise without any planting -
[signed] A Burnaby
Cap. R.E. [Captain Royal Engineers]
31 Decr [December] 1858

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Parish of Yarrow (Detached) -- Sheet 6.

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Selkirkshire County, Yarrow Parish

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Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Vi (with Parts Of Peeblesshire Sheets Xiii, Xiv, Xvii, Xviii) Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Vi (with Parts Of Peeblesshire Sheets Xiii, Xiv, Xvii, Xviii)