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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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LESSUDDEN | Lessudden Lessudden Lessudden Lessudden or St. Boswells |
Rved. [Reverend] Robert Somerville Mr. James Dickson - Schoolmaster Thomas Mann Esqr. Benrig Rutherford's, Southern Counties Register, for 1858, P [Page] 104 Statistical Account Vol [Volume 10, P [Page] 204 |
008.11 | A Considerable Village prettily Situated on the Side of a risinf Eminence on the North-East Extremity of the Parish, And Consists Chiefly of a Single Street, Containing a number of good houses, and was anciently a place of Considerable importance, for, when burned by the English in 1544, it Contained 'Sixteen Strong bastile houses'. It is 4 Miles from Melrose, 10 from Kelso, and 9 from Jedburgh and Selkirk. The Church is Situated about a Mile South-East of the Village, and the Parish School is at the West and opposite the green. When a Post Office was first Established in Lessudden, the P.O. [Post Office] Stamp bore £St. Boswells Green, likely because, from the Annual Fair held there, it was more widely Known. Shortly afterwards, the... |
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[Page] 5aParish of St. Boswells
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Described by John Callanan Lce Corpl RE [Lance Corporal Royal Engineers]
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