Caddonfoot ( gd, Bun Chadain) is a village on the
River Tweed, 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 Lot ...
area of
Scotland
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, on the A707, near
Galashiels.
The village is at the mouth of the
Caddon Water
Other places nearby include
Boleside,
Broadmeadows, Scottish Borders
Broadmeadows is a village 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 Lo ...
,
Buckholm
Buckholm is a farm near to the A7, in the Scottish Borders, Galashiels area of Scotland.
Places nearby include Abbotsford, the Bow Castle Broch, Clovenfords, Darnick, Eildon, the Gala Water, the Lugate Water, and Stow.
Buckholm Tower was b ...
,
Clovenfords,
Darnick,
Gattonside
Gattonside is a small village in the Scottish Borders. It is located north of Melrose, on the north side of the River Tweed. In 1143, the lands of Gattonside were granted to the monks of Melrose Abbey by King David I.
Gattonside was the home ...
,
Innerleithen
Innerleithen ( gd, Inbhir Leitheann) is a civil parish and a small town in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scottish Borders. It was formerly in the historic county of Peeblesshire or Tweeddale.
Etymology
The name "Innerleithen" comes ...
,
Lindean
Lindean is a village north of Selkirk and the Ettrick Water, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
In 1590 the parishioners of Lindean had permission to rebuild their church on the north side of the Tweed, at the west end of Boleside, ...
,
Melrose Melrose may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
* Melrose, Scottish Borders, a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
** Melrose Abbey, ruined monastery
** Melrose RFC, rugby club
Australia
* Melrose, Queensland, a locality in the South Burnet ...
,
Selkirk,
Stow,
Traquair
Traquair ( gd, Cille Bhrìghde) is a small village and civil parish in the Scottish Borders; until 1975 it was in the county of Peeblesshire. The village is situated on the B709 road south of Innerleithen at .
History
Traquair, said to mean ...
,
Tweedbank,
Yarrow.
The church was erected in 1861 and became the parochial church of the new parish of Caddonfoot in 1870. The church was enlarged in 1875 and in the same year that the village school was rebuilt.
[Ordnance Gazetteer, by Francis Groome, publ.1896, article on Caddonfoot] The school closed in 2012 as a new building was opened in
Clovenfords.
Prior to 1898 Caddonfoot lay within the civil parish of
Stow, on its border with
Galashiels. Stow parish was mainly in
Midlothian (Edinburghshire) but the southern portion, mainly the valley of
Caddon Water was in Selkirkshire.
[ Then in December 1898 a new ]civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...
of Caddonfoot was erected consisting of the portion of the civil parish of Stow within Selkirkshire, and the portions of the civil parishes of Selkirk, Galashiels, and Yarrow, situated within the ecclesiastical parish of Caddonfoot. The civil parish includes Clovenfords and Caddonlee and the Clovenfords and District Community Council serves roughly the same area.
Caddonfoot War Memorial stands in the parish churchyard, and was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.[Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Robert Lorimer]
The civil parish has an area of 19,252 acres and a population of 912 (in 2011).[ (See “Standard Outputs”, Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish 1930)][Acreage from Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Figures for each parish, which are presented alphabetically with other places]
References
External links
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RCAHMS record for CaddonfootSCRAN resource for Caddonfoot
Villages in the Scottish Borders
Parishes in Selkirkshire
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