Thank you Alistair for such an in depth search. I will certainly follow these plans up. My Grandmother told me many a tale of her father's time spent on the Stair Estates. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alistair Cameron" <acameron@hinet.net.au> To: "Gallahill" <Gallahill@aol.com> Cc: "Maggie McNeill Grant" <mlg27@optusnet.com.au>; "T & J Agnew" <agnewtj@xtra.co.nz>; "'Pauline/Fiona'" <rommel@relax.com.au>; <sct-wigtownshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:02 PM Subject: Re: [WIG LIST] Inch Parks Cottage > Fiona wrote: > >> Inch Parks is a large Dairy farm, part of Stair Estates on the A751 just >> outside of Stranraer. >> Am not sure if any of the cottages survive on the present day farm. > > Remarkably, the West Search Room at West Register House has a long run of > Estate Plans for the place. Here are versions which I have Indexed: > > Inch Park Inch 1795 NX0962 4 101 WIG > Inch Park Inch 1862 NX1160 4 114 WIG > Inch Parks Inch 1835 NX0962 4 106 WIG > Inch Parks Inch 1844 NX0962 4 109 WIG > Inch Parks Inch 1849 NX0960 4 110 WIG > Inch Parks Inch 1850 NX1257 4 111 WIG > Inch Parks Inch 1873 NX0962 4 115 WIG > > The NX coding is the Nat Grid Coords as assigned by Ordnance Survey. Date > of survey is in the 3rd column. 101 to 115 is my indexing address. > > The 1873 one is closest to the 1881 date referenced: the size is 62x48cm > and field acreages and steadings are shown. This one is a sketch plan, > probably not to exact scale. > > Cheers, > > > ALISTAIR >