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    Place name County Entry Source
    Ale Roxburghshire
    Selkirkshire
    Bowden and St Boswells, and south-eastward through Ancrum, falls into the Teviot, ¾ mile S of Ancrum village. It has a length of 24 miles, the first 5, up to Alemuir Loch, broken by frequent falls: and for two-thirds of its entire course it runs hemmed in by hills Groome
    Ancrum Roxburghshire Bowden. Its length from N to S is 4¼ miles: its greatest breadth is 4½ miles: and its area is 10,389 acres, of which 93½ are water. The Ale in ' many a loop and link, ' flows through the parish from WNW to ESE: and the Teviot, to the length of some 4¼ miles, roughly traces all the south-eastern border. Both rivers afford abundant sport to the angler for salmon and for trout, and also are haunted by otters. The surface, throughout the NW, in the quondam parish of Longnewton, is flat and tame Groome
    Bowden West Lothian Bowden, a hill on the N border of Torphichen parish, Linlithgowshire, 2 miles SSW of Linlithgow. It forms the western Groome
    BOWDEN-HILL Wiltshire BOWDEN-HILL , a chapelry in Laycock parish, Wilts; 3 ½ miles SSE of Chippenham. It was constituted in 1863. Pop., about Imperial
    CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITH Derbyshire Bowden-Edge. Acres, 13,220. Real property, £14,389. Pop., 4,264. Houses, 780. The property is subdivided. Much of the surface is hill Imperial
    CREDITON Devon hills, on the river Creedy, at the junction of the North Devon and the Exeter and Crediton railways, 8 miles NW of Exeter. It was anciently called Credianton; and is now sometimes called Kerton or Kirton. It dates from very early times; but was greatly devastated, in 1743 and 1769, by fire; and presents now a modern appearance. It was, for many years, the seat of a diocese, transferred, in 1049, to Exeter; was seized and somewhat fortified by the rebels in 1549; and was occasionally occupied by the contending forces in the wars of Charles I. It is divided Imperial
    Eildon Hills, The Roxburghshire Hills, The, are situated in the parishes of Melrose and Bowden, Roxburghshire, the town of Melrose lying in the Tweed Groome
    Galashiels Selkirkshire Bowden, on the S by Selkirk, on the W by Selkirk and the Selkirkshire section of Stow, and on the NW by the Selkirkshire section of Stow. Its greatest length, from NW to SE, is 6 ¼ miles; its greatest breadth is 3 ¼ miles; and its area is 8589 acres, of which 150 are water, and 5710 belong to Selkirkshire. From Caddonfoot to the Ettrick's influx the river Tweed winds 3 7/8 miles east-south-eastward along the boundary with Selkirk parish, and then, bending 2 ½ miles north-north-eastward, divides the Boldside from the Lindean section Groome
    GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL Gloucestershire
    Somerset
    Wiltshire
    Seagry, and Sutton-Benger; and the p. curacies of Slaughterford, Tytherton, Kington-St. Peter, Bowden-Hill, and Langley-Burrell-St. Paul. Imperial
    LAYCOCK, or LACOCK Wiltshire Bowden House, Notton House, Notton Lodge, and Lackham House also are chief residences. A spot on a neighbouring hill, at the gatehouse Imperial
    Linlithgowshire or West Lothian West Lothian hills; the chief summits, from W to E, being Bowden Hill (749 feet), Cocklerue or Cuckold le Roi (912), Riccarton Groome
    LONDONDERRY Londonderry LONDONDERRY , a city and port, in the parish of TEMPLEMORE, and county of LONDONDERRY (of which it is the chief Lewis:Ireland
    Melrose Roxburghshire Hills, and entering the Tweed at Old Melrose; a burn joining the Tweed near Langlands; and the lower part of the course of Bowden Groome
    Roxburghshire Roxburghshire hills that extends westwards from this point towards Selkirk, the chief summits in Roxburghshire are Bowden Moor (933 feet), Cauldshiels Groome
    Selkirk Selkirkshire hills; that between the Ettrick and Yarrow is largely occupied with the Duke of Buccleuch's wooded park of Bowhill; and that between the two last-named streams and the Tweed is mainly lofty and heath-clad. The highest points are Foulshiels (1454 feet), South Height (1493), Broomy Law (1519), Three Brethren (1523), and Fastheugh Hill (1645). The prevailing rocks are greywacke, greywacke slate, and clay slate. The soil, for the most part, is light and dry. The mansions are Bowhill, Haining, Sunderland Hall, Broadmeadows, Philiphaugh, and Yair. All of these are noticed separately, as also are Newark Castle Groome
    St Boswells Roxburghshire Hills (1385 feet) in the neighbouring parish of Bowden. Red sandstone, of good building quality, is the predominant rock; and the soil Groome
    Torphichen West Lothian Hills, 749 at Bowden Hill, 912 at CockLerue, and 1016 at Cairn-naple or Cairnpapple; south-westward to 648 feet Groome
    Tweed Berwickshire
    Peebles Shire
    Hills at Peel Fell (1964 feet), follows their summits to Cheviot Hill (2676), and thence curves through England round the valley of the Till, and so back to the coast a short distance S of Tweedmouth. The basin thus comprehends five-sixths of Berwickshire, a small portion of Haddingtonshire, a sixth of Edinburghshire, almost the whole of Peeblesshire, the whole of Selkirkshire, the whole of Roxburghshire except a portion in the S along Liddesdale, and a considerable portion of the N of Northumberland. Of the whole course of the river itself, the first 36 miles are through Peeblesshire alone Groome
    Watling Street Roxburghshire Bowden Burn above Newton, where its remains are very distinct; and thence moves forward to the eastern base of the Eildon Hills Groome
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