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Ordnance Survey - Berwick county, OS Name Books - Berwick county - Volume 8 - Parish of Cockburnspath, OS1/5/8

Continued entries/extra info

7--Parish of Cockburnspath--Sheet 1--No 10--Trace 3

Situation (additional wording)
Dunglass Burn
Flows in a N.E. direction through the Place abd divides the County of Haddington from Berwickshire
[Note - Dunglass Burn]
Dunglass was the name of an ancient castle, on the site of which now stands the cognominal modern [-] which is the residence of Sir John Hall Bart. [Baronet] It is a Gaelic designation composed of the Substantive Dun a tower of fort and the adjective Glas. grey - Hence Dun. Glas, Signifying Grey Tower. The Gaelic (unlike the English) has always the qualifying adjective placed after the noun, except sometimes in poetical and sentimental competitions. The exceptions frequently occurs in Ossian's poems
Kutcher's Hole
At the mouth of Dunglass Burn

Transcriber's notes

Note is covering description of Kuthcher's Hole

Ordnance Survey - Berwick county, OS Name Books - Berwick county - Volume 8 - Parish of Cockburnspath, OS1/5/8

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

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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