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| Halidon Hill | Ha |
Wm Johnston | On Sheet | This Hill which is situated | ||
| Site of Battle | Halidon-Hill | John Logan | 16.6 | about one mile to the west of | ||
| 19th July 1333 | Halidon-Hill | John Thompson | Berwick is a very considerable | |||
| eminence rising by a gradual | ||||||
| acclivity from the banks of the | ||||||
| river Tweed and on the other side | ||||||
| and west end having a shorter | ||||||
| but steeper ascent. This hill | ||||||
| commands a fine view of Berwick | ||||||
| and the German Ocean, |
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| In the year 1333 a bloody battle | ||||||
| was fought between the English | ||||||
| commanded by Edward the 3rd and | ||||||
| the Scotch under Lord Douglas. | ||||||
| The English occupying Halidon | ||||||
| Hill. In this battle the Scotch lost | ||||||
| their General, and acknowledge | ||||||
| the loss of ten thousand men | ||||||
| and the flower of their nobility | ||||||
| The loss of the English was trifling. | ||||||
| Brow of the Hill | Wm Johnston | On Sheet | A good stone-built house two | |||
| John Logan | 16.6 | stories high with large Garden | ||||
| John Thompson | and out offices attached in good | |||||
| repair. It is the property of | ||||||
| the Corporation of Berwick. |
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| who is the tenant, lets the House | ||||||
| and Garden but retains the | ||||||
| Shepherd’s House and outoffices. | ||||||
| The Farm comprises 100 acres | ||||||
| of arable land, well cultivated. | ||||||
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| In this neighbourhood is a | ||||||
| Dike known by the Douglas Dike | ||||||
| and which tradition states to have | ||||||
| been the place where Earl Douglas | ||||||
| was slain 19th July 1333 at the battle | ||||||
| of Halidon Hill – but all efforts have | ||||||
| been in vain to get it pointed out | ||||||
| Wm Goodacre Civil Assistant |
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