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Ordnance Survey - Berwick county, OS Name Books - Berwick county - Volume 4 - Town of Berwick, OS1/5/4

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County of the Borough of Berwick upon Tweed
At the epoch of Domesday Book, Berwicka signifies a Village, which
appertained to some town or manor, and as Tothill is called
the Berwick of Westminster in the donation of Edward the
Confessor, the town on the Tweed was called Berwick
of Coldingham - such is the situation of Camden.
We learn from Somer & Lye, the Saxon Glassarists that
Berwicke is the same substance as Baretun. Villa frumentaria
a grange in the Village (Camden). It may have been so called from
its want of Verdure, from its Anglo Saxon, bare, bar, undus & wick
Vicus Castletum Sinus, the curving each of a river. (Chalmers Ciled. P.190)
Some annlists there are, that argue Berwick owes its name to
its being Barre or frontier place to Scotland, & wick a town
This may be an absurd supposition, equally so with the tradition

Ordnance Survey - Berwick county, OS Name Books - Berwick county - Volume 4 - Town of Berwick, OS1/5/4

This volume contains information on place names found in the town of Berwick.

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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