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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| LAMMERMOOR (District) | Lammermore (District) | Chalmers Caledonia Gazetteer of Scotland New Statistical Account of Berwickshire |
003 ; 004 ; 010 ; 014 ; 015 | In ancient times the shire of Berwick seems to have been a separate jurisdiction from the Bailliary of Lauderdale and to have been divided into the Merse & Lammermoor districts. It is not easy to say what had been the exact boundaries and extent of these three divisions, now almost obsolete - For the purposes of agricultural inquiry the whole county may be very conveniently considered under two districts - the Merse and Lammermoor, the former including all the comparatively low land along Tweed, Whiteadder, Blackadder, and Eye and the latter comprehending Lauderdale, along with the more eastern hilly country peculiarly called Lammermoor according to the general division of the county just pointed out, the Merse designated the whole lower ground from Tweed up the cultivated slopes of the southern range of the Lammermoor hills including the western parishes of Neuthorn & Mertoun, and forming the largest piece of compact level ground - diversified only by a few gentle undulations - to be found in Scotland - Mr Blackadder estimates this division to contain 100.2.26 acres the whole remainder of the County- with one exception ie. Berwick, is therefore, to be considered as forming the Lammermoor district & according to the same authority should contain 185.214 acres. Gazetteer of Scotland pp. 132 & 133 Gazetteer of Scotland P.P. 132. 173 |
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