Gordon, Scottish Borders
| Gordon | |
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 Gordon, looking west | |
  Gordon Location within the Scottish Borders | |
| OS grid reference | NT647431 |
| Council area | |
| Lieutenancy area | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GORDON |
| Postcode district | TD3 |
| Dialling code | 01573 |
| Police | Scotland |
| Fire | Scottish |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| UK Parliament | |
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Gordon is a village in the
Berwick on Tweed road and the A6089 Edinburgh to Kelso road. It is 6 miles (10 km) east of Earlston and 4 miles (6 km) west of Greenlaw
.
Gordon was served by trains on the Berwickshire Railway from 1863 to 1948.[1]
Origins
The first
Marquis of Huntly.[1]
Church
In 1171, the chapel at Gordon, dedicated to
Free Church of Scotland church was opened in 1843 [3]
but that is now used as a private home.
Greenknowe Tower
In 1408, Alexander Seton married Elizabeth Gordon, heiress of the Gordon family,Covenanter and the Dalrymple family.[5] The tower is now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland.[6]
Today
Modern Gordon has a Church of Scotland kirk, a nursery, a primary school, a lawn bowling club, a football pitch, a community woodland, children's play park, village hall, a public house/restaurant and village shop/takeaway. The main street has not changed for many years though there has been much housing development at the north end of the village off Station Road.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland". www.electricscotland.com.
- ^ Statistical Accounts of Scotland. 1791–1799. Volume 5 page 88
- ^ "Genuki: Gordon, Berwickshire". www.genuki.org.uk.
- ^ http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/earldomschapter3s/htm [dead link]
- ^ Pringle, Water (1847). W. Wood (ed.). The memoirs of Walter Pringle. p. 97.
- ^ "Greenknowe Tower". historicenvironment.scot. Retrieved 2022-03-26.
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