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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| ESKDALEMUIR | Parish of Eskdalemuir Parish of Eskdalemuir Parish of Eskdalemuir Parish of Eskdalemuir Parish of Eskdalemuir Parish of Eskdalemuir |
Sherriffs List of Parishes New Stat: Acct: [Statistical Account] Old Stat: Acct: [Statistical Account] Fullarton's Gazetteer Johnston's Co. [County] Map Oliver & Boyd's Almanac |
[Situation] In the N.E. [North East] portion of the County. A parish in the district of Eskdale, Dumfries-shire. It is bounded on the north by Selkirkshire and Roxburghshire; on the South-east by Westerkirk; and on the South-west by Hutton and Corrie; and on the west by Moffat. Nearly all its Surface is mountainous, heathy, and of a moory appearance, and appropriately designated Eskdale-muir. It's highest summits are Ettrick Pen on the northern boundary, and Loch Fell on the western. The soil of the parish is in general, very deep, but mossy, unproductive of fine vegetation, and carpeted with heath, or with a coarse grass. The Parish is cloven into mountain-ridges by the White and the Black Esk, and very numerous tributaries. On almost every hill of the parish are marks of encampments, some rectangular, and some of a circular or oval form. The parish is traversed from north to south along the White Esk by one line of road, and diagonally from south-west to north-East by another. On the peninsula at the Confluence of the Esks, an ancient fair was, in former times held, at which a remarkable custom prevailed. At any anniverary of that fair, unmarried persons, of the two sexes, chose companions suitable to their tastes, with whom they agreed to live till next Anniversary. This strange paction was called 'hand fasting' or hand in fist'. If, at the return of the fair, they were mutually pleased with their Companionship, they continued together for life; and if not, they separated and were free to make Another Choice. Eskdalemuir is in the presbytery of Langholm, and synod of Dumfries. Patron, the Duke of Buccleugh. Stipend £220.15.10 Unappropriated teinds £719.14s.0. The parish originally constituted part of Westerkirk, and was disjoined from it in 1703. |
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[Page] 3Parish of Eskdalemuir
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