Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cessford

Cessford, hamlet, Eckford par., NE. Roxburghshire, 6 miles NE. of Jedburgh; adjacent is ruin of Cessford Castle, ancient seat of the Kers of Cessford, ancestors of the Duke of Roxburghe, who takes hence the title of baron and marquis.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Eckford ScoP       Roxburghshire ScoCnty
Place: Cessford

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