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| Branxton | Branxton | Revd Robert Jones | On Sheet | This village is situated 9 miles N.W. by N | ||
| Mr A Rankin | 10.13 | of Wooler on the northern declivity of Branxton | ||||
| Northumberland Directory | Hill. it is very small and the principal | |||||
| residents are agricultural laborers and small | ||||||
| farmers, it has of late gained considerable | ||||||
| notice from tourists to the field of Flodden | ||||||
| The joint proprietors are Watson Askew | ||||||
| and J Collingwood Esqr. | ||||||
| St. Paul's Church | Church (Parish) | Revd Robert Jones | On Sheet | This Church is a very neat edifice occupying | ||
| (Vicarage) | Dedicated to St Paul | Mr A Rankin | 10.13 | the site of the ancient Church and was only | ||
| Northumberland Directory | erected in 1849- its situation is at the west | |||||
| end of the village. the living is a vicarage in | ||||||
| the deanery of Norham. | ||||||
| St Paul's Church | In Parish Name List | When widening the foot path in the Burial | ||||
| (Vicarage) | ground a few years ago a great many human | |||||
| bones were exposed in such a mass as to | ||||||
| warrant the belief that they belonged to the dead | ||||||
| hastily interred after the battle of Flodden. it | ||||||
| is not known whether they were slain on that | ||||||
| spot or afterwards collected for the purpose | ||||||
| of burial in consecrated ground | ||||||
| William Boyd CA |
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