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works at Auchenheath stand high on the valuation rn in limeworks at Garrellwood are of fair value. (251-1203) farm is of small extent, on the bu name, near the Blackwood domain, the Stonehone is well enclosed and fertile. Marrshill, Big Draffan (251-773) farm is the largest in vain 1this parish, although there is another larger property, but farther up the Ward there are rent. Draffan, as on Ross and Forrest-B Marrshill as on Survey sheet, lie east of Canue Dalserf march, west of Fence and Craignetur. Carlisle road, the mineral line, and in a dis. outlines as upland-the height west of Drafia 614 feet on the Ordnance sheet. Drafia. farm is of first-class size in the parish, ait cluster of holdings to the north and west ar strath of the Nethan, will be warmer and

Southfield, North, and Southfield Sor logically named (251-1018, 1030), farmse size, conterminous, farther down the parish farms, between the Carlisle road, the mine fairly-enclosed and sheltered section of the gemel, Nether and Over (251-911, 92 siderable extent, conterminous, on the s of the mineral railway, and in a pretty pat land swelling upwards to eastward G farm is of fair extent, lies north of Kens of the Carlisle road, and in a well(251-1090) farm is of moderate size Lesmahagow, between the roads from G where the fields are well hedged and i

Clannochdyke (251-1234) farm is of Wellburn, west of Mansefield, and Abbeygreen. Boreland (251-1029) extent; the name appears in many comment has been made on its imp of the parochial village, south of the

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of, but near to, the cross country road from the village to the Clyde at Lanark. Auchtool (251-1041) farm is of considerable size, but strange of name; Auch may mean place, but what "tool," the tail of this name, may imply, is hard to guess; it lies south of Boreland, east of Auldtoun, west of Birkhill, and north, a good way, of the Broken-Cross moor. Auchnatroop (251-1092), or Auchintroch, farm is of fair size; has Stonebyres on the east, Muirhouse south, Auchenheath west, Hallhill north, is south-west of the Black-hill, and the height on southeast is, by recent survey, given as 942 feet.

Hallhill, North and South (251), are two farms adjacent to each other that north of considerable size, the one south is small; they lie above the burn of cognate name-a feeder of the Nethan-but their acreage lies eastward, towards the Clyde, and north of the woods of Stonebyres. Hallhill, as a height, is reported on the Ordnance sheet as 613 feet.

Hillend (251-1044) farm is of considerable size, lies southwest of Underbank, on the Clyde, north-east of Hallhill; and, although no height is given on the Ordnance sheet, on the map by Forrest the district is laid down as hilly-like, and he was exact in topography. Woodside (251) farm is of small size, as is the adjoining holding of Connorholm as on Forrest, Commonholm as on the Ordnance sheet, and both are south of Craignethan and east of the Vale of the Nethan; the latter, it may be, holm land, and the former near the woods which so adorn this district. Draffan-muir appears twice on the valuation roll for small amounts, and being near the colliery district, the soil may be of the rough and heathy pasture character-the wealth lying under the upper crust of the earth. Bogside (251-1161) farm is of moderate size, lies south-east of Auchtyfardle, on line of the mineral railway, north-west of the farm of Boreland, and where the country is not over boggy-like.

Milton-Lockhart mill (251-948) and farm are of considerable extent and value, on the river Clyde, and below the fine bridge, of which a view appears in this Work. On the old map by Ross, and the more recent one by Forrest, Milton-Lockhart mill is placed in the parish of Dalserf, at the angle where it touches

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