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Pease Dean Pease Dean
Pease Dean
Pease Dean
Pease Dean
Gazeteer of Scotland
Statistics of Berwickshire
Mr J Hardy Penmanshiels
Rev [Reverend] W Paterson Cockburnspath
004.03 [situation] Running along the East side of the N [North] British Railway through the plan
A very deep glen or ravine, commencing near Penmanshiel Cottage, take a N.E. [North Easterly] direction till near Pease Mill where it terminates. Its banks are very Steep and finely wooded and Pease Burn flows through its centre. In Ancient times this Glen was aenominated the "Peaths" from the paths which traversed its sides, and by which alone it could be crossed. This was one of the Channels of escape which the Covenanters Shut against Oliver Cromwell when they had him hemmed in at Dunbar. It is now the property of Sir J Hall, Bart [Baronet] Dunglass. Copied from names sheet of 1-15

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Parish of Cockburnspath

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