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GREENLAW (a " grassy hill ")

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 548 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GRA-GUI
GREENLAW (a " grassy hill ") , a town of Berwickshire, Scot-
land
 . Pop. (1901) 611. It is situated on the Blackadder, 62; m. S.E. of Edinburgh by the North British railway company's branch line from Reston Junction to St Boswells. The town was built towards the end of the 17th
century
 , to take the place of an older one, which stood about a mile to the S.E. It was the county town from 1696 to 1853, when for several years it shared this dignity with Duns, which, however, is now the sole
capital
 . The
chief
  manufactures are woollens and agricultural implements. About 3 M. to the S. the ruin of Hume Castle, founded in the 13th
century
 , occupies a commanding site. Captured by the
English
  in 1547, in spite of Lady
Home
 's gallant
defence
 , it was retaken two years afterwards, only to fall again in 1569. After its surrender to Cromwell in 165o it gradually decayed. Towards the close of the 18th century the 3rd
earl
  of Marchmont had the walls rebuilt out of the old stones, and the castle, though a mere shell of the
original
  structure, is now a picturesque ruin.


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