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Byrecleugh, a place in Longformacus parish, Berwickshire, on Dye Water, near the boundary with Haddingtonshire, 4¼ miles W of Longformacus village. A shooting-box of the Duke of Roxburghe, a curious old house adjacent to a farm hamlet, is here. A summit of the Lammermuirs, rising to an altitude of 1335 feet above sea-level, and spiring on a range called Byrecleugh Ridge, is about a mile NW of the shooting-box. A cairn called the Mutiny Stones, 240 feet long, 75 broad, and 18 high, stands on the south-eastern slope of the ridge, and is thought to commemorate a desperate conflict, in 1402, between the Earl of Dunbar and Hepburn of Hailes.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a place" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Longformacus Parish Berwickshire County East Lothian County |
| Place: | Byrecleugh |
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