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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| GATTONSIDE [district] | Gatton Side Gatton Side Gatton Side Gatton Side Gatton Side Gatton Side Gatton Side Gatton Side |
Decreat of land of 1750 Statistical Account of Roxburghshire Page 52 Origines Parochiales Page 284 Monastic Annals of Teviotdale Page 262 Revd [Reverend] William Murray Minister of Melrose Allan Freer Esq BanKer Melrose James Curle Esq BanKer Melrose T. J. Dunn Esq Writer Melrose |
003.16; 004.13; 007.04; 008.01 | An extensive district of Cultivated land; and a Small portion of Moor land, it was given by King David 1st. to the support of Melrose Abbey in1136 and retained by the Several Abbots till the destruction of the Abbey, it is now the property of Lord Somerville. Thomas Tod Esq of Drygrange and Several others In Origines Parochiales Page 281 the following description of the boundary of this district appears "As the river Leder falls into the Tweed and thence upwards as far as the Burn of Fauhope (on the Ordnance Plans Flaw Burn & PacKman's Burn) which falls into the Leder and thence upward by the same burn and thence Across the Moor to the Raeburn" (On Ordnance Plans BlaKeburn)" which falls into the Aloent "(Allan Water on Ordnance Plans) and thence following the same river Aloent as far as the Tweed." Literary Gentlemen State that this name is derived from the saxon word "gate" a road and that the village is properly named was much as it is on the side of the Watling Street or Roman Way. - |
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