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Melrose, Old, seat, on a promontory formed by a loop of the Tweed, in par. and 2½ miles E. of Melrose, Roxburghshire. Old Melrose was the site of a Columban monastery (7th century), similar to that of Iona, and afterwards of a chapel, dedicated to St Cuthbert, to which frequent pilgrimages were made.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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Feature Description: | "seat" (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites") |
Administrative units: | Melrose ScoP Roxburghshire ScoCnty |
Place names: | MELROSE | MELROSE OLD | OLD MELROSE |
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