Chirnside

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Chirnside
Street in Chirnside
Street in Chirnside
Coordinates 55 ° 48 ′  N , 2 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 48 ′  N , 2 ° 13 ′  W
Chirnside (Scotland)
Chirnside
Chirnside
Residents 1459 2011 census
administration
Post town DUNS
ZIP code section TD11
prefix 01890
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Scottish Borders
British Parliament Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Scottish Parliament Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Chirnside is a village in the northeast of the Scottish Council Area Scottish Borders or in the traditional county of Berwickshire . It is located about eight kilometers northeast of Duns and 13 kilometers northwest of Berwick-upon-Tweed, England, near the right bank of Whiteadder Water .

history

There was already a church on the site in the middle of the 12th century. Today's Chirnside Parish Church was built at the same location in 1572 and revised several times over the centuries.

As a result of its location in the hotly contested Scottish-English border area, there was once a Bastle House on a strategically important hill southeast of Chirnside . English troops destroyed the defense structure in the course of the 16th century. Since the stone material was used for the construction of the surrounding buildings, there are no more traces of the Bastle House today.

In Chirnside was the mansion Ninewells House , where the philosopher David Hume once lived. The building, later redesigned by William Burn , was demolished in 1964. What remains is the 16th century pigeon tower of Ninewells House . In addition, the Chirnside Primary School extends . The Art Deco building from the 1930s is a listed building. In the 1880s, there was a primary school in Chirnside that could accommodate 170 students.

In the time of industrialization, Chirnside mills settled along Whiteadder Water. In addition to some sawmills, the Chirnside Bridge Paper Mill should be highlighted. The facility is now a listed building.

traffic

The A6105 , which connects Earlston to Berwick-upon-Tweed , is Chirnside's main thoroughfare. It leads over the Chirnside Bridge to the west of the village , which from the middle of the 19th century offered a crossing of Whiteadder Waters.

In 1849 Chirnside got its own station on the first section of the later Berwickshire Railway . The line connected St Boswells with Reston from 1865 and thus created a connection between the Waverley Line and the East Coast Main Line . In 1951 the Chirnside train station was closed. The former station building is a listed building.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ Entry on Edington Bastle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ↑ Greenlaw in: FH Groome (Ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
  7. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  8. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  9. ↑ Information on the Berwickshire Railway
  10. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .

Web links

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