The Newport, Wormit & Forgan Archive

Location : 68  West Road

= Property still standing

Notes:      

Introduction

More information in the blog October 2020.

Sketch map from RHP85254, Glasgow & Dundee Junction Railway plans, 1845;
80 is now Coronation Garden;
83 is byre, stable, shed & outbuildings etc (Thomas Just);
85 is dwelling house, straw house, outbuildings & garden (Thomas Just);
86 is bathing house (Thomas Just);
87 is arable ground (Thomas Just);
above right of 88 is dwelling house etc (Mrs Isabella Brown/Cameron & Margaret Brown), now demolished (Riverside [3]);
89 is Wellgate House (William Thornton, David Pitcairn), now 78 West Road;
90 is Pluck-the-Craw (Mrs Jane Cameron, David Scott, John Baillie, Peter Inglis)

Location and Old Maps

Latitude, longitude:      56.43397,-2.952675

View location on the 1855 6-inch map, the 1895 25-inch map, the 1914 25-inch map, the 1966-73 25-inch map, or a 1944-50 aerial photograph at the National Library of Scotland website.

Nearby properties (demolished in red):   3 Riverside Lane   (Riverside [3], Riverside Lane)   Riverside [2], Riverside Lane   6 Wellgate Street   41 West Road   43 West Road   47 West Road   62 West Road   66 West Road   70 West Road   (Coronation Garden, 64, West Road)   Well Cottage, West Road   Hazel Bank, West Road   (Broadhaugh Steading, West Road)   (cottage, West Road)   (weaver's cottage, West Road)  

1854 Ordnance Survey Name Book Entry    (originals at ScotlandsPlaces)     (more information on the O.S. Name Books page)

1909-10 Finance Act - Valuation Office: Field Surveys

Reference no.      417

Old Addresses (any dates are approximate and are usually the latest occurence of the address)

House Names (any dates are approximate and are usually the latest occurence of the name)

Directory entries (before 1975)      There are 113 entries

Entries in the Registers of Voters

Census records

Valuation Roll entries      There are 51 entries

Railway Map References:

Early Sasines:

Sasine Plots:

Sasine Abridgements:

Abbreviations in the notes
t/on - thereon;   t/p - turnpike;   dw - dwelling;   ho - house;   pt - part;   pce - piece;   grnd - ground;   bldg - building;   Tr/Trs - Trustee/Trustees;   dec - deceased;   ... - words omitted;   pol - poles;   yd - square yards;   : - bounded;   rd - road;   ' - feet;   " - inches;

Basic Types of Sasine Abridgements     Worked example explaining the sasine transactions on the property pages     Sasine entries - background information and explanation

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