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Ordnance Survey - Midlothian county, OS Name Books - Midlothian county - Volume 66 - Parish of Stow, OS1/11/66

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[Page] 30 Parish of Stow.
[Note] Ext: [Extract] from Stat: [Statistical] Account of Stow.
"The history of this district as a place of importance is carried so far back as "the days of King Arthur in the early part of the Sixth century. We are told that "fragments of the Real Cross brought from the Holy Land by that Monarch were preserved "with great veneration in the Virgin Mary's Chapel of Wedale. [Nennius?] or his interpolator "Samuel Pledges himself Says Turner that the fragments of the cross brought by Arthur "were Kept in Wedale six miles from Mailros. St. Marys Church referred to was "Situate fully half a mile below the present church immediately under the Public road
"where on the estate of Torsonce a Part of one of the walls three feet thick may Still "be Seen built in with a common drystone diKe. A little above it is a very fine perennial "Spring Known by the name of the Lady's Well and a huge stone recently removed in forming "the new road but now broKen to pieces used to be Pointed out as imPressed with the "print of the Virgin Mary's foot on occasion of one of her [decents?] to visit this favoured Sanctuary."

Ordnance Survey - Midlothian county, OS Name Books - Midlothian county - Volume 66 - Parish of Stow, OS1/11/66

This volume contains place name information from the parish of Stow.

Ordnance Survey - Midlothian county

Ordnance Survey was established in the 18th century to create maps, surveys and associated records for the entirety of Great Britain. These records are arranged by county. This entry has been created to enable searching for Ordnance Survey records for the county of Midlothian, which is in the east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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