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army, and a quest was made for him, lest he should fall 

 into the brook, which is probably steppable, and the searchers 

 at last heard him calling "Edward kens the brig." Thereafter 

 it was known as " Edwin or Edwardkens Brig!" These small 

 bridges were common along the coast, on the rapid running 

 and readily flooded streams, for the passage of traffic. There 

 were four or five on the Pease Burn, one or two at the Mill, 

 one still standing above the Tower Castle, called Wallace's 

 Brig, and Queen Mary's Brig ; another at the head of the 

 Tower Dean, called the " Parket Brig," being the passage 

 from Cockburnspath Park to Ewieside ; another one further 

 up, also on a passage to Ewieside, called Stockbridge, being 

 of wood ; and another at Foulfordlees, on a road leading to 

 Duns and Monynut, near a dangerous ford. There would 

 probably be one near Dunglass Mill, superseded by a more 

 recent, but very primitive looking structure, at the bottom of 

 Dunglass Peathes or Paths, whence the name of the farm-stead 

 of Pathhead, which stood near the head of it. The modern 

 steading occupies the site of Helenstead, so named from Lady 

 Helen Hall. This road, which went across Billsdean Burn, 

 where there is a bridge near the school, and then passed 

 behind the smithy, was continued by what is now the modern 

 turnpike to Dunbar. The erection of Dunglass and Billsdean 

 Bridges carried the road along on a higher level. 



In Sir John Sinclair's " Statistical Account," (vol. 3), 

 contributed by the Eev, Mr John Harvie, Edinburgh, 1791, 

 and very superficially written, we learn that in the parish 

 of Innerwick there are two very beautiful tumuli, on the top 

 of which have been burial places. Near one of them is a 

 bridge of one arch, commonly called Ederkin, said to be a 

 corruption for King Edward, who is supposed to have built 

 it.— (I. p. 124-125.) 



In the New Statistical Account — Parish of Innerwick account 

 drawn up ' by the Rev. Alex. S. Patterson: — it is said, "A 

 little to the south of Innerwick Castle, 1836, on the right 

 of the Oldhamstocks road, slight remains are still visible of 

 a structure, removed some years ago, called EdMens Bridge 

 — a name that has been traced, by conjecture or tradition, to 

 Edwin, King of Northumbria. In a notification, issued at 

 the beginning of the 18th century, by William Nisbet of 

 Dirleton, as recorded in the Kirk Session books, the edifice is 



