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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANCRUM

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 953 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANCRUM , a
village
  on Ale or Alne Water (a tributary of the
Teviot
 ), Roxburghshire,
Scotland
 , 2 M. W. of Jedfoot
Bridge
  station on the Roxburgh-Jedburgh branch of the North British railway. Pop. (1901) 973. The earlier forms of the name, " Alnecrumba," "Ankrom "and" Alnecrom," indicate its Gaelic derivation from crom, "crooked "" the crook or bend of the
For information on the subject of Tarent Kaines see Sir W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum (new ed., 1846), vol. v. 619 et seq.
Alne." The
village
  is of considerable antiquity, and was formerly held by the see of Glasgow. Its
cross
 , said to date from the time of
David
  I., is one of the best preserved crosses in the Border counties. Ancrum Moor, 2 m. N.W., was the scene of the battle in which, on the 17th of February 1545, the Scots under the
earl
 . of Angus, Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch, and Norman
Leslie
 , defeated 5000 English, whose leaders, Sir Ralph Evers orEure and Sir Brian Latoun or Layton, were slain. A Roman road, 24 ft. broad, forms the N.E. boundary of the parish of Ancrum.


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