Addinston is a farming village, off the A697, close to the
Carfraemill roundabout, with two
hill fort
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s and
settlement
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s, in
Lauderdale
Lauderdale is the valley of the Leader Water (a tributary of the Tweed) in the Scottish Borders. It contains the town of Lauder, as well as Earlston. The valley is traversed from end to end by the A68 trunk road, which runs from Darlington to ...
in the
Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders ( sco, the Mairches, 'the Marches'; gd, Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, Midlothian, South Lanarkshire, West Lothi ...
area of
Scotland
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, in the former
Berwickshire
Berwickshire ( gd, Siorrachd Bhearaig) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in south-eastern Scotland, on the English border. Berwickshire County Council existed from 1890 until 1975, when the area became part of th ...
.
The Cleekhimin Burn joins the
Leader Water
The River Leader, or Leader Water, is a small tributary of the River Tweed in Lauderdale in the Scottish Borders. It flows southwards from the Lammermuir Hills through the towns of Lauder and Earlston, joining the River Tweed at Leaderfoot.
Cou ...
, or
River Leader, at Wiselawmill.
Places nearby include
Allanshaws,
Borthwick
Borthwick is a hamlet, parish and stream in Midlothian, Scotland. The parish includes the 15th century Borthwick Castle, which is to the east of the village and the villages of Gorebridge and North Middleton.''Gazetteer of Scotland'', publ. b ...
Hall,
Fountainhall, the
Heriot Water,
Killochyett,
Lauder
The former Royal Burgh of Lauder (, gd, Labhdar) is a town in the Scottish Borders in the historic county of Berwickshire. On the Southern Upland Way, the burgh lies southeast of Edinburgh, on the western edge of the Lammermuir Hills.
Etymo ...
,
Oxton and
Stow
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* Stow, Lincolnshire or Stow-in-Lindsey, a village
* Stow of Wedale or Stow, Scottish Borders, a village
* Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, a small town
* Stow, Shropshire or Stowe, a village
* Stow ...
See also
*
List of places in the Scottish Borders
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*
List of places in Scotland
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*List of burghs in Scotland
*List of census localities in Scotland
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**List of Orkney islands
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References
* Thomson, A (1902), 'Lauder and Lauderdale', Galashiels.
* Gunn, G (1897), 'Report of the meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists Club for 1894, Addinstone and Longcroft'.
External links
RCAHMS/CANMORE entry on AddinstonRCAHMS record of West Addinston HillThe Megalithic PortalGeograph image of Addinston hillfort
Villages in the Scottish Borders
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