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

Transcriber's notes

3 entries in red seem to have been added after the description was written and relate to the position of the 'objects' in the Name Lists. I have marked them with * to distinguish them from descriptive remarks. They are in 3 different columns so it was difficult to know where to transcribe them.

Continued entries/extra info

Greenlaw Parish -- W Beatty -- [page] 5

Greenlaw (Parish) -- Greenlaw (Parish) -- Continued -- *The supposed Sites inserted; See pages 39 and 95 of the Name List* -- There were to be seen a few years in this neighbourhood the ruins of two religious houses dependent on the priory of Kelso, when Popery was established in this Country but there is not now a Vestage of them remaining - *a third Chapel inserted on sheet 22.9*
There are the remains of an Encampment about two miles above the town, at the confluence of the Blackadder and Fangrist - and on the very verge of their precipitous banks. The Camp, which is Called the Blackcastle Rings and is on the Northern side of the river; and on the south side, exactly opposite, is the beginning of an Intrenchment which runs about half along the bank, and then turns off to the South in the direction of Hume Castle - That part of it which runs in a Southerly direction is called The Black Dikes"-
*Names Entered in page 47 of the Name List -*

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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