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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
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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Parish of St. Boswells
Sheet 8.11
Described by John Callanan Lce Corpl RE [Lance Corporal Royal Engineers]

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