Bruce, I am very grateful!! While I have used digital maps from the NLS (National Library of Scotland), It has been expanded since I used them last. I can get a satelite overlay and digital Earth views. It allows amazing views. I appreciate your explaination of moving while in the lowest magnification possible. it really makes it faster to zoom in on the area I want, south of Dundee. I used the Road Atlas I bought for driving in Scotland to remind me which direction exactly to move. I'm putting out to the list so others know about the digital library of maps, and to say a proper THANK YOU for your assistance. If anyone would like to see the full instructions of how to use the site, contact me off line and I'll send along Bruce D's excellent email to me. _http://www.nls.uk/_ (http://www.nls.uk/) Mary I've seen Dyke and Cottontown frequently, around several villages. Any idea what they the terms mean? ----- Original Message ----- From: <BRUINSWOOD@aol.com> To: <perthshire@rootsweb.com>; <angus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 1:14 AM Subject: [ANGUS] map of Errol > Does anyone know where I can get a very detailed map of Errol? 7 of my 18 > Powrie branches (including my own) originate in this village, and I have > the > names of farms now on everyone, Dyke of Murie, Inchcoonans, Gormach, > Argaith.....and while my Victorian (1851-1895) map has a couple, but not > all. > **************Recession-proof vacation ideas. Find free things to do in the U.S. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/domestic/national-tourism-week?ncid=emlcntustrav00000002)

> I've seen Dyke and Cottontown frequently, around several > villages. Any idea > what they the terms mean? In Scotland, a dyke is a wall. There is a parish named Dyke, its name said to have been derived from the dyke surrounding an ancient camp somewhere in the parish. Ah hae ma doots. A Cotton, cot-town, cotterton, cottarton and other variations is a house or houses occupied by cottars. A cottar or cotter is "a peasant occupying a cot or cottage for which he hjas to gibe labour" according to the dictionary. Many large farms had a cotterton or cotton associated with them. HTH Anne