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  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Berwickshire OS Name Books, 1856-1858
  4. Berwickshire, Volume 27
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LAMMERMOOR HILLS Lammermoor Hills - Continued Map of Berwickshire.
Fullerton's Gazeteer of Scotland
New Statistical Acct. [Account] of Berwickshire
Chalmers' Caledonia		 009; 015; 016 [continued]
Primary micaceous schist Comp [composes] the entire range, not only of th [the] Lammermoors, but of the heights [which] Continue through Peebleshire till [it joins] the metaliferous mountains about t [the source] of the Clyde. Lammerlaw which r [rises in] the parish of Lauder and gives na [name to] the whole range has an altitude [of] 1. 500 feet. Among other Chief or remarkable summits, according to [the] measurements of Blackadder in his s [survey of] Berwickshire, Criblaw, has an ele [elevation] of 1615 feet; Clinthill 1544; Tippet Knowes 1323; Manslaughterlaw 1273; Twinl [Twinlaw] 1260; Earlstonhill 1200; Great Dirringtonlaw 1145; Ayrhousehill 1054; Bemer [Bemersyde] hill 1011; and Cockburnlaw 912. -- Fullerton's Gazeteer of Scotland Page 206.

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Parish of Langton

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Berwickshire County, Langton Parish

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Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Berwickshire, Sheet Ix Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Berwickshire, Sheet Ix
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Berwickshire, Sheet Xv Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Berwickshire, Sheet Xv
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Berwickshire, Sheet Xvi Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Berwickshire, Sheet Xvi