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Legerwood is a village by the Eden Water, 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, near Lauder, near the Southern Upland Way.
Legerwood Kirk Legerwood Kirk is an ancient and historic Church of Scotland church in the former county of Berwickshire, Scotland. It is situated half a mile east of the hamlet of Legerwood and south east of Lauder in the Scottish Borders, on an unclassified ro ...
is outside the village and has been there since at least 1127. Places nearby include Boon Farm, Gordon, Greenlaw, Kelso,
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Westruther Westruther is a village on the B6465, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the lower slopes of the Lammermuir Hills, in the former Berwickshire. The largest town nearby is Gordon. Places nearby include Duns, Greenlaw, the Lammermui ...
, Earlston.


Pronunciation

The township name is pronounced ''Le-JER-wood'', containing phonically produced as .


See also

* List of places in the Scottish Borders * List of places in Scotland *
List of irregularly spelled English names This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations, or because a better known namesake wit ...
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Legerwood, Tasmania Legerwood is a rural locality and town in the local government area of Dorset in the North-east region of Tasmania. It is located about south-east of the town of Scottsdale. The 2021 census determined a population of 204 for the state suburb ...
, a locality in Australia


External links


RCAHMS record for Parish LegerwoodRCAHMS record for Legerwood Parish Church
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* ttp://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/BEW/Legerwood/index.html GENUKI: Legerwoodbr>Borders Family History Society: LegerwoodGEOGRAPH image: Legerwood Hill
Villages in the Scottish Borders Parishes in Berwickshire {{Borders-geo-stub