Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Birns

Birns, a rivulet of Haddingtonshire, rising on the Wside of Lammer Law (1733 feet), near the Berwickshire boundary, and running some 7 miles north-westward along the boundary between Humbie and Pencaitland parishes on the left, and Yester, Bolton, and Salton parishes on the right, to a confluence with the Tyne, 1 mile E of Wester Pencaitland village. Its volume here is rather larger than that of the Tyne.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a rivulet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Berwickshire ScoCnty       East Lothian ScoCnty

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