OS1/5/17/2
| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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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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