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| County of the | } | in a degree similar to that of | ||||
| Borough & Town | } Continued | Berwick rising on a bold & lofty | ||||
| of | } | stretch of land, reaching to the | ||||
| Berwick upon Tweed | } | ocean, and with a clear & rapid | ||||
| river flowing into the sea. | ||||||
| At the epoch of Domesday Book, Berwicka signifies a village which | ||||||
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| the Berwicke of Westminster in the donation of Edward the | ||||||
| Confessor, the town on the Tweed was called the Berwick | ||||||
| of Coldingham – such is the intimation of Camden. | ||||||
| We learn from Somer & Lye, the Saxon glossarists that | ||||||
| Berwicke is the same in substance as Boretun, Villa frumentaria, | ||||||
| a grange or village (Camden). It may have been so called from | ||||||
| its want of verdure, from its Anglo Saxon bara, bar, undus, & wick. | ||||||
| Vicus Castellum Sinus, the curving reach of a river. (Chalmers Caled: P.190) | ||||||
| Some annlists there are, that argue Berwicke owes its name to | ||||||
| its being a Barre (or frontier place to Scotland) & wick a town. | ||||||
| This may be an absurd supposition, equally so with the tradition | ||||||
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