OS1/5/9/70

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  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Berwickshire OS Name Books, 1856-1858
  4. Berwickshire, Volume 09
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
ST ABBS HEAD St. Abb's Head
St. Abb's Head
St. Abb's Head		 Mr Andrew Wilson Coldingham
Archibald Purvis Coldingham
Heugh Spence Coldingham		 005.04 A large and conspicuous promontory or headland of a wild and rugged appearance forming a well known landmark for Mariners. In Carr's history of Coldingham it is stated that " Within that part of the Lindisferne Bishopric a double Monastery for the reception of Monks and Nuns was erected" by Osway, "on a wild headland near Coldingham, which soon afterwards obtained in honour of the Abbess, the name of St Abb's Head". The nunnery was founded by "Ebba the Sister of the celebrated Osway King of Northumberland"
New Statistical acct [account] of Berwickshire P. 281

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Parish of Coldingham
Sheet 5 No 4 Trace 6 Described by J McDiarmid

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There was a King Oswiu of Northumberland.
Mode of spelling needs to be repeated where there are 'do's

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ralawa, DANIALSAN

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Berwickshire County, Coldingham Parish

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