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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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Heck, a village in Lochmaben parish, Dumfriesshire, 23/8 miles SSE of Lochmaben town, and 3½ WSW of Lockerbie. One of the villages called the Four Towns, it stands on a rising-ground, the Hill of Heck; and sometimes, during a freshet of the river Annan, is completely begirt with water, so as to look like an island in a lake, and to be approachable only by means of a boat. It got its name, signifying ' a rack for feeding cattle,' from its being made, in times of freshets, a retreat of cattle driven from their ordinary pasture on the haugh to be fed from racks on its rising-ground.—Ord. Sur., sh. 10, 1864.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Lochmaben ScoP Dumfries Shire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Heck |
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