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Ordnance Survey - Berwick county, OS Name Books - Berwick county - Volume 23 - Parish of Greenlaw, OS1/5/23

Continued entries/extra info

[page] 14 Greenlaw Parish W. Beatty

Lammermoor Hills - Continued - must have been as bewildering to the Travellers as grandly Sylvan in their vast Contribution to the Landscape _ They still have natural woods hanging on Some of their Slopes, and in Such localities, are wormed out of their chilliness of aspect; but over their Summits, and down their higher Slopes they are almost everywhere nakedly dressed in heath __

"LammerLaw", which rises in the Parish of Yester, Haddington and gives name to the whole range, has an altitude of 1500 feet _
Among other chief or remarkable Summits, according to the Measurements of Blackadder. in his Survey of Berwickshire_ CribLaw, has an elevation of 1615 feet _ Clint Hill 1544; Tippet Knowes. 1323 _ Manslaughter Law. 1273 _ TwinLaw Hill 1260; Earlston Hill1200; Great Dirrington Law 1145 _ Ayrehouse Hill 1054 _ Bemerside Hill 1011. & Cockburn Law 912 feet _

Ordnance Survey - Berwick county, OS Name Books - Berwick county - Volume 23 - Parish of Greenlaw, OS1/5/23

This volume contains information on place names found in the parish of Greenlaw.

Ordnance Survey - Berwick 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 Berwick, which is in the south east of Scotland. The boundaries of the county were altered by the Boundary Commissioners in 1891.

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