Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cavers

Cavers, par., S. Roxburghshire, 2 miles NE. of Hawick, 18,254 ac., pop. 1318; contains Cavers House, an old seat of the Douglases. John Leyden, the scholar-poet (1775-1811), was a native.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cavers Parish       Roxburghshire County
Place: Cavers

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