OS1/24/28/18

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
TOWER [Barns] Tower
Tower
Tower
New Stat:Acct: [Statistical Account]
Mr Todd Haswellsykes
Revd [Reverend] J. Little Manor
013 [Situation] About 8 Chains S.W. [South West] of Barns

A Square tower of Some antiquity adjoining the Mansion house of Barns. It is in a good state of preservation and appears to have been of Some Strength - This is Evidently one of the Border Peelhouses or Towers, erected to preserve property during the incursions of Freebooters.

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Parish of Manor -- Sheet 13 No 9

[Note] -- "There Still remain the
ruins of Some of the fortified
residences of the Chieftains; Which
formed a Confederate Chain of
beacon-towers, Extending from
our extremity of the parish to the other, And from whose
fire-Proof Summits by day the signals of smoke, and
fire by night, proclaimed, in the Course of a few minutes
to the whole inhabitants of the vale, the approach of
the English Moss-Troopers *** In addition to these,
there were houses of defence (Peel-houses) at St Gordian's
or Gorgham's Kirk, Old Posso Glenrath, town of Manor
Woodhouse, And Barns, - the last of which is still
preserved entire". -- New Stat: Acct: [Statistical Account] Peebles-shire Page 116.

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