Volume contents
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- 258 - Melrose , Title Page
- 259 - Melrose , Index
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| ABBOTSFORD | Abbotsford (Contd.) [Continued] | 007.03 | [Continued from page 99] The court yard extends along the front of the house about 150 Yards, and forms almost a square directly opposite the gateway a screen of open Arches of gothic stone worK, filled with a net work of iron affords a glimpse of the garden, which is beautifully laid out. Around the Walls of the Court Yard, and also in various parts of the building numerous antiquarian Relics, stones carved with armorial bearings, and historical and pious inscriptions, which have been gathered with immense labor from many an old and Mouldering ruin, are built into the walls, perhaps the most curious oddity, is the door which formerly closed the portals of the Old Tolbooth of Edinburgh, it is built in about half way up the wall, and at the West end of the house there is a doorway, composed of the stones which formed the actual portal of the Tolbooth. They were given to Sir Walter Scott on the pulling down of that building in 1817. Near this doorway is the pulpit of the celebrated Ralph Erskine. All around the back of the house and along the wall of the garden, there is a balcony of cast metal and also a finely trellised and shaded walk and in front of the Western and older part of the house, is placed a very beautiful, and by [Continued on page 101] |
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Transcriber's notes
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Ordnance Survey - Roxburgh county, OS Name Books - Roxburgh county - Volume 28 - Parish of Melrose, OS1/29/28
This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Melrose.
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.