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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CASTLETON | Castletoun Castletown Castleton Castleton Castleton |
Valuation Rolls for 1811 Walker's and Blackwood's Maps Johnston's Map of Roxburghshire List of Post Towns for 1858 Dr [Doctor] Barton, Ph [Parish Minister] |
[Situation]At the Sn [Southern] Extremity of Roxburghshire The Name of this Parish originated with a Fort or Castle which stood on a precipice about 100 feet perpendicular on the east bank of Liddel Water - the ramparts and fossee of which still remain - called in more modern times Liddel Castle and which sheltered the now extinct village of Castletoun from which the Ph [Parish] name is more immediately derived - In old histories etc this Ph [Parish] is termed the County of Lidisdale. It is still termed in Poetry and conversation Liddesdale. The adjunct ton is the approved modern orthography for toun and town. The Parish of Castelton is bounded on the North by those of Teviothead, Cavers, Hobkirk and Southdean on the East by the Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland, on the South by Cumberlandshire and Canonbie Ph [Parish] in Dumfrieshire and on the West by those of Ewes, WesterKirk and Eskdalemuir also in Dumfrieshire. There is no part of Castleton detached, nor is there within the limits here assigned to it a detached portion of another Parish. Its form is that of an irregular triangle, its greatest length from Neides Law on the north-east to its southern extremity at the confluence of Muir Burn with Kershope Burn is 17 1/2 miles; and its greatest breadth from Peel Fell on the En [ Eastern] boundary to Tudhope Hill on the West is 14 miles, and it includes a more extensive area than any other Parish in the South of Scotland - containing nearly 68,152 1/2 Impl [Imperial] Acres nearly 2/3ds [two-thirds] of which are in permanent hill pasture or moor. The general appearance of the upper part of the Parish is mountainous and .. |
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| LIDDESDALE | Liddesdale Liddesdale Liddesdale |
Ancient Map of Roxburghshire Gazetteer of Scotland New Statl Acct [Statistical Account] of Castleton |
[Situation]At the Sn [Southern] Extremity of Roxburghshire The Name of this Parish originated with a Fort or Castle which stood on a precipice about 100 feet perpendicular on the east bank of Liddel Water - the ramparts and fossee of which still remain - called in more modern times Liddel Castle and which sheltered the now extinct village of Castletoun from which the Ph [Parish] name is more immediately derived - In old histories etc this Ph [Parish] is termed the County of Lidisdale. It is still termed in Poetry and conversation Liddesdale. The adjunct ton is the approved modern orthography for toun and town. The Parish of Castelton is bounded on the North by those of Teviothead, Cavers, Hobkirk and Southdean on the East by the Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland, on the South by Cumberlandshire and Canonbie Ph [Parish] in Dumfrieshire and on the West by those of Ewes, WesterKirk and Eskdalemuir also in Dumfrieshire. There is no part of Castleton detached, nor is there within the limits here assigned to it a detached portion of another Parish. Its form is that of an irregular triangle, its greatest length from Neides Law on the north-east to its southern extremity at the confluence of Muir Burn with Kershope Burn is 17 1/2 miles; and its greatest breadth from Peel Fell on the En [ Eastern] boundary to Tudhope Hill on the West is 14 miles, and it includes a more extensive area than any other Parish in the South of Scotland - containing nearly 68,152 1/2 Impl [Imperial] Acres nearly 2/3ds [two-thirds] of which are in permanent hill pasture or moor. The general appearance of the upper part of the Parish is mountainous and .. |
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[Page] 1Parish of Castleton County of Roxburghshire
The name of this district can only be inserted on the reduced plan. [signed] JBJ
In defining Liddesdale the Gazetteer remarks "a district in Roxburghshire drained by the Liddel taking its name from the that stream and identical as to both limits and History with the Parish of Castleton"
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