846 Rev. S. A. Fyler on the Village of Cornhill 



Swinhoe, gentleman. The owner and Inheritor of the said 

 Tower and Town of Cornhill." 



Seven years later this tower was taken by the French 

 general D'Esse at the head of a troop of Scots, who found it 

 well stored with provisions, and especially salted salmon. 

 It was standing in 1560. 



It is probable that the present residence of the CoUing- 

 wood family was erected by the Fosters upon its site. 



The foundation of a handsome bridge, over the river Tweed, 

 was laid May 24th, 1763. 



About a mile to the east of Coldstream bridge, and nearly 

 opposite to the old ford of Lennel, are the grass-covered re- 

 mains of another ancient Border fortlet or pele tower, com- 

 monly called "Castleton (a corruption, perhaps, of Castle- 

 stone) Nich," frequently taken and re-taken during the 

 Border wars ; and supposed to have been erected about 1121, 

 when Norham Castle was built by Bishop Flambard. 



About three miles to the south-east of Coldstream bridge 

 stands the old and beautiful bridge of Twizel, over which the 

 vanguards of the English army is said to have passed before 

 the battle of Flodden. It consists of a single semicircular 

 arch of 90 feet span, and the height from the top of the 

 battlement to the water is about 42 feet. 



Still further on, to the south, are the remains of Castle 

 Heaton, (anciently belonging to a family of that name) ; it 

 afterwards passed into the honourable family of Grey, but 

 now belongs to the Earl of Tankerville, a branch of the same 

 family. This castle was destroyed by the Scots, in the reign 

 of Henry VII., and never subsequently rebuilt. Just below 

 it is a ford over the river Till, through which another portion 

 of the English army is said to have crossed, previous to the 

 engagement at Flodden. 



Near to the confluence of the rivers Till and Tweed, an- 

 ciently stood the domestic chapel of the lords of the manor of 

 Tilmouth, dedicated to St. Catherine, and a donative in their 

 gift, erected on a site near to which the remains of St. Cuth- 

 bert, the sixth bishop of Lindisfarne, are supposed to have 

 landed in a stone boat from Melrose, about the ninth cen- 

 tury ; which circumstance is thus alluded to by Sir Walter 

 Scott in his poem of Marmion — 



" Not there, his relics might repose ; 

 For wondrous tale to tell ! — 

 In his stone coffin, forth he rides, 

 (A ponderous hark for river tides ;) 

 Yet light as gossamer it glides, 

 Downward to Tilmouth cell." 



