
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,
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 ...
,
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 ...
*
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
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