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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of Scottish place-names).
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MUCKLE TOUN, The. A soubriquet for Langholm in Dumfriesshire (Dmf. 1912 J. & R. Hyslop Langholm 582, 1926 McDiarmid Drunk Man (1953) 17).
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