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ABBEY ST BATHANS Abbet St Bathans (Parish) Map of Berwickshire
Chambers Antiquities of Scotland
Statistical Account of Berwickshire
The Revd. [Reverend] Thomas Davison Minister
003 ; 004 ; 009 ; 010 A parish situated among the Lammermoor Hills in Berwickshire and extending to somewhat short of 8 square miles of Surface. It is bounded on the North by Oldhamstocks N E [North East] by Cockburnspath, East by Longformacus, South by Dunse, West by Longformacus (Detached), & N. [North] West by Innerwick in the Co [County] of Haddington. In ancient times a church was founded here and dedicated to the Saint whose name it bears.
The writer of the New Statistical account of Berwickshire says - "There is, properly speaking, no village in the Parish; but in a delightful little vale through which the Whiteadder glides, lie the farm house & Steading of Abbey St. Bathans with its adjoining Smithy;

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Parish of Abbey St Bathans -- W. Beatty C.A. [Civilian Assistant]

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