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Report of the Meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club for the year 1889. By James Hardy, LL.D. 



Glanton, Glanton Pyke, Branton, Eeavely, Ingram, 



Greenshaw Hill, Hartside (Hertisheved), 



Greaves Ash, Linhope, Low Hedgeley. 



The first Meeting was on May 29th, the place of assemblage 

 being Glanton Pyke, in Whittingham Vale. Our venerable 

 member, Mr Collingwood, had hospitably invited the Club to 

 breakfast at his mansion, when some thirty-seven from all parts 

 of the district had the pleasure of being present. Glanton, 

 owing to the absence of deeds and numerous subdivisions of 

 property, requires a special inquiry to elucidate its story— at 

 least the western moiety ; the eastern having been transmitted 

 through fewer hands, and belonging to the barony of De Eos 

 can be more readily traced, and is much more simple and 

 unbroken. 



Most of the party passed through the pretty village of 

 Glanton, about which I have recently obtained a few recollections 

 from former or present residents, which I give as preliminary 

 to the day's operations. None of the present inhabitants have 

 seen the old market cross, although I believe there is a fragment 

 of it somewhere, but the foundation of it could be pointed out 

 within the last 25 years. It stood on a sort of mound on the 

 loft side at the top of the road that goes down to Whittingham. 



There is the tradition of a graveyard and a chapel having 

 been situated behind the Queen's Hotel. It was possibly of 

 Nonconformist origin, but this is merely conjectural. All that 

 is known about early Presbyterianism here is that we ascertain 

 from the " Records of the Justices of Northumberland," in 1702, 

 the house of Tim. Punshon of Glanton was licensed as a meeting 

 house of Protestant Dissenters ; and that on the previous year, 

 on the 8th October 1701, at the Michaelmas Sessions in New- 

 castle, the house of the same Timothy in Beanley was also 

 licensed, and that for various other private houses or outhouses 

 in North Northumberland, licenses were then obtained. The 

 Rev. R. H. Davidson informed me that the present Presbyterian 

 congregation does not represent this older society, but that it 



