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Merse, the most southerly division of Berwickshire, but popularly the whole of Berwickshire, and in either sense the largest and richest tract of champaign country in Scotland; in ancient times it included all the flat country between the Lammermuirs and the Cheviots, and was called March, a form of the name which gives the title of Earl of March to the Earl of Wemyss.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "division of Berwickshire" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Berwickshire County |
| Place: | Merse |
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