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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| KIRKTON [parish] | [continued from page 1] of the Turnpike Road between Hawick and Carlisle crosses the northern division. There is no railway no minerals are wrought and no manufactory carried on. There is only the hamlet Kirkton in the northern district wherein the Parish Church and School are rather inconveniently situated. The district is altogether of an uninteresting character and though many improvements have of late years been introduced its history &c. may still be summed up in the declaration "One generation passeth and another cometh". The Catrail or Picts' Work Ditch - an ancient line of defence supposed to have been between the Romanized Britains of the Cumbrian Kingdom and their Saxon invaders on the East which consists of a fosse and a double rampart may still be traced at the southern extremity of Parish. There are earth works scattered throughout the district which are characterized by parties in locality as ancient British Forts This rampart may be traced from Galashiels in Selkirkshire on the North to Peel Fell on boundary between Roxburgh and Northumberland on the South. The site of a chapel which is traditionally reported to have been used till the time of the Reformation has been shewn - its grave yard may still be distinguished by an earthen dyke. |
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Parish of Kirkton -- County of Roxburgh
Ordnance Survey - Roxburgh county, OS Name Books - Roxburgh county - Volume 23 - Parish of Kirkton, OS1/29/23
This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Kirkton.
Ordnance Survey - Roxburgh 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 Roxburgh, which is in the south east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.