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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| PEASE BRIDGE | Pease Bridge Pease Bridge Pease Bridge |
Gazetteer of Scotland 5.1.2.237 Statistics of Berwickshire P. 291 Mr J. Hardy. Penmanshiel. Revd. [Reverend] William Paterson, Cockburnspath |
001.15 | [Situation] Crossing Pease Burn about sixteen chains S.W. [South West] from Woodend This is one of the most singular structures of the kind in Scotland. It consists of 4 arches, two of which rest on the banks of the ravine. It is 300 feet long, 16 wide, and the height from the bottom of the glen to the top of the iron railing above the parapet is 123 feet. One of its piers rises from the middle of the dean 97 feet before the arch springs. It crosses "Pease Dean" & Burn" on the old road from "Cockburnspath" to "Berwick" and was erected in 1786 - It is a County Bridge See New Statistical account of Berwickshire. P. 311 |
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