Crailing

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Crailing
Crailing Church
Crailing Church
Coordinates 55 ° 31 ′  N , 2 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 31 ′  N , 2 ° 30 ′  W
Crailing (Scotland)
Crailing
Crailing
administration
Post town KELSO
ZIP code section TD5
prefix 01835
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Scottish Borders
British Parliament Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Scottish Parliament Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Crailing is a village in the Scottish Council Area Scottish Borders or in the traditional county of Roxburghshire . It is located around nine kilometers southwest of Kelso and five kilometers northeast of Jedburgh on the right bank of the Teviot .

history

The settlement of the area can be traced back to the Iron Age . The remains of an early Iron Age hill fort can be found on Peniel Heugh , a hill on the opposite bank of the Teviot . Only a short distance away there is another, more recent Fort. The Clan Kerr acquired the lands in the 16th century and built there the mansion Monteviot House .

Today's Crailing Church was built around 1775 and revised in the course of the 19th century. In the 1880s there was a school in Crailing that could accommodate 81 students.

In 1803 the mansion Crailing House was built on the southern edge of Crailing .

traffic

The A698 , which connects Hawick in Scotland with Berwick-upon-Tweed in England , is Crailing's main thoroughfare. Before Jedburgh, the A68, which runs from Edinburgh to Darlington , is a trunk road within a few kilometers. In Kelso there is also a connection to the A699 .

To the west of Crailing, Roman Dere Street crossed the Teviot.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ Entry on Peniel Heugh  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  3. ↑ Entry on Crag Wood  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ^ A b Eckford 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 .

Web links

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