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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| DUNSE [parish] | Dunse (Parish) | County Map New Statistical account of Berwickshire Fullerton's Gazetteer of Scotland |
009 ; 010 ; 016 | Dunse a parish at the northern limit of the district of Merse in Berwickshire. It is bounded on the north by Abby St Bathan's and a detached part of Longformacus; on the north-east by Buncle and Edrom; on the south by Edrom; on the south-west by Langton; and on the west by Longformacus. It is irregular in outline; but, may in a general view, be regarded as oblong. In extreme length it measures 6 miles in average breadth 3½ miles; and in superficial area. about 21 square miles. The northern division, comprising about one-third of the area, is clothed in a heathy dress, variegated withstripes of pastoral green and autumnal yellow; and running up the aclivity of the Lammermoor hills. sends aloft near the boundary, the Conspicuous Cone of Cockburn law 912 feet above the level of the ocean. The southern and larger division undulates along the valley of the Merse. with, in general, a de-lightfully rolling surface, a rich and fertile soil, and an ample adorning of Culture and grove. Dunse law, north of the town of Dunse, stands on a base of between 2 and 3 milesin Cir-cumference, and rises in a gradual ascent on all sides, till it terminates in a plain of nearly30 acres, 630 feet above the level of the sea. Its table-summit was the site of the original town or village, and is still tracked by the vestiges of the entrenched Camp of the army of Covenanters, under General Leslie, who here sat down to watch the Warlike movements of Charles for enforcing prelacy. Whiteadder water comes down upon the parish at its north-eastern angle and forms its boundary-line over a distance of 2½ Miles, offering to the luxurious, banquets of a delicious fish, called the Whittling, from 16 to 24 Inches long, and of a high coloured red flesh similar to that of the Salmon. A brook called Langton burn, flows down from the West |
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[page] 1Parish of Dunse
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Duns. see the Town Clerk's letter of 13.2.96 on opp [opposite] Page.
Jus. Stirton
22.2.96
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