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Eccles (Parish) Eccles (Parish) Continued North-east to South-West is 6 3/4 miles; & the greatest breadth from North-West, to South East 5 1/2 miles, & it contains 17.413 Square Miles - according to Mr Blackadder.
River Tweed bounds the parish on the South - The whole of the parish, with the exception of some slightly elevated parallel ridges, called Cotchet ridge, Brae Dunstan, & Bartle-Hill, consists of a plain beautifully fenced, cultivated & wooded.
Purvis Hall, the seat of John Purvis of that ilk, is situated in the parish. It is now unoccupied & going to decay - The family was founded only in the 17th century.
At Crosshall, about a mile to the north of the Village of Eccles, there is a cross or monument of white sandstone, without

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