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| WHITSOME (Parish) | Whitsome (Parish) | Continued | [Continued from Page 4} It is handed down however, from the preceding generation, that a row of houses occupied an elevated site Close to the Well. These houses went by the name of Temple Hall in consequence, probably, of their connection with some more ancient religious edifice. The Spring too, had all along been called "The Temple Well" Numerous querns, as in different parts in Scotland, have been met with on the farm of Laws. It only remains to be here noticed, that till the middle of the last century, there was visible on the East of the present School house a Kind of mound, - the Birlie Knowe, or Justice Court, of by gone days. Thither Villigers usually repaired, to Submit their grievances, & ask redress; and there the Birliemen, after hearing parties, pronounced their cheap and sapient decisions. The Village lies in a direction of East and West, and exclusive of the farm houses and Cottages of Herriott Bank and Leetside, Consists of Seventeen houses, feued from the Blackadder estate, Seven Cottages on the property of Whitsomehill the school house, on [Continued on Page 6] |
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