Help needed to identify place name

[Dannemois]

Hello
Can someone please help with a placename for Alexander Leadbetter on the attached.  He was born Innerleithen.  The clip is from an entry in Innerleithen old parish register. 

Thanks, Roy

[rosie99]

Houlhope 

[DonM]

Innerleithen - Hopes Hill area and it may not be on any map. 

https://maps.nls.uk/view/74414121

Don

[MaureeninNY]

Looks perfect,Rosie and DonM!

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“... 4, HE Following FARMS in the Pari1hoAfincr- leithen:- The FARM of COOQI7HAIR, , r The FARM of GLENTRESS-and 1 lie FARM of HOULHOPE. Tshefe Farms are prefently poffeffed by Robert Horr- r burgh, who has run two leases. thereof for nineteen o years. They ...”
 
April 19, 1804 - Caledonian Mercury - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

[Forfarian]

There is a Hulhope on the west side of the Leithen Water in Ainslie's map dated 1821, almost opposite Colquhar on the east side. https://maps.nls.uk/view/216442818

The first edition of the Ordnance Suvery map shows a place called Woolhope on this same spot. See
http://www.geograph.org.uk/browse.php?p=577261

Woolhope is still shown on the current 1:25,000 map. Go to http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/nt3341 and click on the map top enlarge it.

Scotland's Places lists Woolhope, of which it says, "About ⅛ of a Mile South West from Colquhar. A small house one story high and in bad repair, at present unoccupied; the property of John Miller Esqr, Leithen Lodge. This house is called Hulhope on the county map, but the proper name is Woolhope".

So I think your Houlhope is the present-day ruin of Woolhope.

It's also on the map DonM found as Hulhope.

[Dannemois]

Rosie, Don, Maureen and Forfarian

Thanks for the details, and links; I originally thought it was Houlhope but questioned myself when I couldn't find it on a map.

Kind Regards

[Skoosh]

I had heard that a "Hope" was originally the highest house up a burn!

Skoosh.