MILBURN. Townships in Dumbartonshire, Northumberland, and Westmoreland. The Imp. Gazetteer of Scotl. defines Jlillbuni as "any brook driving a mill, or any locality washed by such brook, and taking name from it. Brooks and localities of the name of Jlillburn are very numerous in Scotland, — many of them probably having received the name in the times of thirlage, when the mill of an estate or barony, together with the brook which drove it, was an object of local interest inferior only to the church and the manor house."

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