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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 667320
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/667320
NJ46NW 1 4433 6568
(NJ 4433 6568) Bede House (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, (1938)
A hospital at Rathven was founded for a chaplain, seven lepers and a servant in 1224-6. The hospital continued, latterly as an institution for the poor, until the 19th century; the last bedesman dying in 1859 and the house being demolished in 1886.
D E Easson 1957
No further information; no remains of the house exist.
Visited by (OS) EGC 15 March 1962
The former existence of 'Bede House', and the name, are still known locally.
Visited by OS (RL) 17 July 1967
