DIRECTO~Y. . CAR RAM. lUl ro,6rr acres of land and 1or of water; rateable value, HA.GG is a hamlet, 5 miles east from Carham and r§ £14,520; the population in rgii was gro. north from Mindrum station. Sexton, Thomas Smith. Letters through Cornhill arrive at 11 a.m. Mindrum Letters through , which is the nearest tele­ railway station is the nearest money order & telegraph graph & Wark the nearest telephone call office, arrive office at ro a.m. ·wark is the nearest money order office The children of this place attend the school at Mindrim Wall Letter Box cleared 4.3.0 p. m. week days only HOWBUR~ is a hamlet, about 3 miles south-east from The children of this place attend the school at Wark ··]arham and 2 south from Sunilaws station. Here is a Church of Mission church, erected in 18g6, in DOWNHAM, 7 miles south-east from Carham, is a which Divine service is .conducted on Sundays by the hamlet, consisting of one farm, the property of Earl Vlcar.• Grey P.C., G.C.H., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. in the occupa­ The children of this place attend the school at Wark tion of Mr. C. F. J. Thompson. The Earl of Tankerville W ARK is a village, on the road from Kelso to Cornbill is lord of the manor. and on the south bank of the , which here Letters through Cornhill forms the boundary between England and Scotland, with The children of this place attend the school at Mindrum a station at Sunilaws, about r mile south from the village, .m the North Eastern branch railway between Kelso and LE.A.RMOUTH, NEW or EAST, is a hamlet at the fweedmouth: before the railway was formed, the inhabi­ junction of four roads, 3i miles east from Carham and tants were chiefly carters and carted coals and lime, but are now more largely employed in agricultural pursuits. ~~ south from Coldstream station. Wall Letter Box cleared at r2 noon & 7 p.m. week day!! There are about 35 freehold properties in the village, only the owners having a right to vote for members of parlia­ ment for the Berwick division of the county: these land­ The children of this place attend the school at Cornhill owners, who are the descendants of the keepers of the old castle, have houses and portions of land, with a LE.A.RMOUTH, OLD or WEST, 3 miles east, and 2 right to pasture cows on the common. A court lest is east from Sunilaws station, is a hamlet consisting of one held in the school room every three years by Mr. farm, the property of Earl Grey P.C., G.C.B., G.-C.M.G., Charles Percy, of Alnwick, the steward of the Earl of G.C.V.O.; it is said formerly to have been a populous Tankerville, who is lord of the manor. To the we.st village. of the village are the ruins of Wark Castle, begun Letters through Cornhill-on-Tweed arrive at 8.50 a.m. about rr58 (4 Hen. II.) and completed in u6r; in Cornhill-on-Tweed is the nearest money order, tele­ n83 (29 Hen. II.) it was repaired at a cost of £rg, graph & telephone call office and was one of the strongest of the Border castles: The children of this place attend the school at Cornbill in 1138 it was beseiged by the Scots, and the garrison, being at length red need by famine, surrendered : it MINDRIM, or Mindrum, is a hamlet, on the Bowmont then remained in the hands of the Scots till 1157• when, water, with a station on a branch of the North Eastern reverting to the English crown, it was reconstructed as railway, 5 miles south-east from Carham. The Mission ,tated above, in n58 : in 1523, it was assaulted by the church of St. Mary was erected in I 898. Between Duke of Albany, Regent of Scotland, who. however, was Mindrim and the mill is an old graveyard of con­ compelled to raise the siege; an account of this a';tack is siderable size, containing a number of inscribed stones, given by George Bucbanan, the Scottish historian, who including one to George Tait, ob. Oct. 4, r675, and a was an eye-witness of the operations; various other a!'o­ larg~ red slab bearing a figure: the centre of the grave­ saults are also on record: the fortress was surrounded by yard, a space about ro by 12 yards, has been inclosed by two walls, parts of which, overlooking the Tweed, are still a wall and contains stones to the Edmiston famil...-, • standing : in the centre of the inner ward was a tower dated 1778. Th~ Earl of Tankerville is lord of the of great herght and strength, evidently the keep, the ruins manor and George Frederjck Bell esq. and Alexander of which still remain: Edward III. was here in 1296, Borthwick esq. are 11ole landowners. and in 1341 came again here to the assistance of Post, M. 0. & T. Office, ~Iindrum Station (letters Catherine, wife of William d€ Montacute, Earl of Salis­ should have Northumberland added).-Robt. Halmbra, bury, who then held the castle against the Scots; and sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 7 & II a.m. ; dis­ the inhabitants still adhere to the tradition that the patched at rr.rs a.m. to Cornhill & 6.20 p.m. to .A.tn­ Order of the Garter was at that time instituted : in wick; .no sunday delivery of letters. Exceptional r4oo, Wark Castle became the propery of the Greys, hours of telegraph business, sundays, 9 to ro a.m and now belongs to the Earl of Tankerville. A kame Wall Letter Box, Mindrim ~ill, cleared 9.20 a.m. & or hill takes its beginning at the east end of the vil­ 5.30 p.m. week days only lage and extends past the castle towards Carham for Council School, Mindrim (mixed), erected in r857, for about seven-eighths of a mile. About three hundred yards 6o children; average attendance, 38; Lawrence Scott, to the west of the castle is St. Giles' churchyard, now master; B. P. Selby, Pawston, Cornhill-on-Tweed, called Julie's or Gilly's nick, with the remains of the foun­ correspond~nt dation of the church. The principal houses of the village Railway Station, Robcrt Balmbra, station master are suppo~ed to have stood to the west of the ca~tle and St. Giles' church, and between the kame and the bank,; of the MONEY LAWS, 5~ miles east from Carham and 3 Tweed, which it appears had divided at the VI est end of the kame and flowed on each side of the ca~tle : the soutb-bv-east• from Coldstream station, is a hamlet, ~onsi~ting of two farms and a few cottages. ground on the south includes a hollow of wet marshy Wall Lrtter Box cleared at 11.45 a.m. week days only land, which was crossed by a drawbridge; it j,: now The children of this place attend the school at Branxton drained by a large cut at the east of the village, called the "Gowt.'' and supposed to have bePn made bv the SUNIL.A. WS, about 2~ miles south-east from Carham 'nemy to reach the walls of the castle: ahnut half a and a quarter of a mile from Sunilaws station, is a mile to the west of the village is an eminence called hamlet consisting of one farm. "The Gallows Knowe" or hill, where all the Scots ThP r-hilrlren of thi;. place attend the school at Wark "ri,.oners were banged in view of the Scotch. Wark Wall Letter Box, Wark Common; cleared Ht 3.15 p.m. bnat hnuse stands on the banks of thP Tweed. close wef'k davs- onlv. nnder the rnins of the castle, where thP river is crossed Wall Letter Box at Station cleared 3.30 p.m. week days by a ferry bo:1t. The Earl of Tankerville is lord of the on h- "'Hnor. • Post, M. 0. & Telephone Call Office. GPOr!!e Knox, TTTHEHILL is a hamlet 5 miles east from Carham sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Cnld~tream, and 2 north from Mindrum station on the North Eastern which is the nearf'!lt teleg-raph offic~. at g.30 a.m.; railway. di~patrhed at 4.40 p.m.; no sunday delivery Letters through Cornhill-on-Tweed arrive at II p.m Public Elempntary School (rnixPd~. for too rhildren; \Ii•drn "' is thr ne"lrrst monev ord~r & telegraph office averaqe attendance, 64; George Knn-x. wa~ter; Rev. The children of tbis place attend the Sl~hool at Branxton Ahrernon P. B. Barker M.A. corN>RponnPnt PRESSON is a hamlet, on the Willow Burn, 2! mile!l SHTDLA W iR a hamlet about half a mile to tbe south­ east-hv-south from Carham and 2 south-east from WP!'t of the village, so ralled on account of all the rattle • Snnilaws station. being taken frnm within thf' walls of the raRtle in the morning, and shed or divided to the different owners. Letters through Coldstream arrive at II a.m. Wark is & & the nParest money order telephone call office Railwav• Stations. Corn hill-on-Twef'd is the nparest teleg-raph office Carham, WiJliam Swan, station master The children of this place attend the school at Wark Sunilaws, William Harrison, station master