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Swinton, Main Street, General
General View (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Swinton, Main Street, General
Classification General View (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 218415
Site Number NT84NW 63
NGR NT 83507 47442
NGR Description From NT 83273 47347 to NT 83703 47526
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/218415
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Swinton
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
Main Street in Swinton runs in a roughly south-west to north-east direction, and dates from the earliest days of the planned village, which replaced an earlier informal collection of houses in the late eighteenth century.
Early maps show that development took place initially in the area which lay between The Green and the church to the north-east, and some late eighteenth-century cottages still survive on Main Street. During the nineteenth century, more buildings were erected on the stretch that lay to the south-west of The Green.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
Photographic Survey (May 1962)
Photographic survey of buildings in Swinton village, Berwickshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1962
