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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| EDROM (Parish) | Edrom Parish Continued | New Statistical account of Berwickshire Fullerton's Gazetteer of Scotland Chalmers Caledonia |
010; 016; 017; 022; 023 | [Continued] is worked in several quarries. Blacka [Blackadder] House, on the right bank of the Bl [Blackadder] near its embouchure, is an elegant edifice, accompanied with extensive [shrubberies] and greenhouses, and a beauti [beautiful] Gothic Conservatory which was Cons [Constructed] at the Cost of several thousand pou [pounds.] Allan bank-house, Kelloe, and Kimme [Kimmergham are] all on the same stream, Broom-house o [on the] Whittadder, and Nisbet, a seat of Lord Sinclair, at the western boundary, are mansions possessing the attractions either of Architecture or of beautiful a [aspect] and Cheering situation. The parish, through not intersected by any M [Major] line of road, is Abundantly provided with facilities of Communication. Over the Whittadder are two bridges, and over the Blackadder four, but two latter are only for foot passengers. At Broomhouse is the ruin of and old pap [paper mill] which is substituted by an extensive new one at Chirnside bridge. Allanbank, Celebrated as the scene, in 1674, of a Covenanters' Conventicle, between 3,000. and 4 [4000] in number, to whom the eminent and devout ministers, Blackadder and Welch, assisted by three of their bretheren, preached and dispensed the Lord's Sup [Supper.] The hamlet Of Edrom stands on the north-west Corner of the parish, 3½ mi [miles] north-east of Dunse, on the road between that and Berwick, and is th [the location] of the Parish Church and delightfully situated. The village of Allanton, [with] a population Of 250, has an endowed school and one inn. Populat [Population] of the parish, in 1801, 1,355; in 1831, 1,435. Houses 272. Assessed property, in 1815, [--] Edrom is in the presbytery of Chirnside, and Synod of Merse and Teviotdale. Patron the Crown. Stipend £242.16.7.; glebe £15. Unappropriated tiends £ [--]. Schoolmaster's Salary £34.4.4½ with about £15, School fees [--] according to |
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[page] 2 Edrom Parish - Continued --Transcriber's notes
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