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fireplaces, the chimneys of which project beyond the gable walls — 

 this building is 25 feet broad. 



" Nepeta cataria (Catmint) grows under the walls on the south and 

 west side of the house. 



"There are remains of a moat on the west and south sides, now 

 nearly filled up (and full of wild Iris) and through it the Chibburn 

 runs to the sea, about half-a-mile off."* 



The two plates (III. and lY.) from drawings made for Mr 

 M. H. Dand in 1846, by Mr Thomas Robertson, give some 

 portions of the building no longer in existence. 



And on the 28th October 1850 Mr M. H. Dand wrote 

 to Mr Woodman : — 



"I duly received your note respecting Chibburn. I assure you the 

 interest I took in it is unabated, but I have been much engaged 

 lately, which has prevented me acknowledging your interesting 

 communication sooner. 



" I look forward with much pleasure to the time when yoa shall 

 have completed your researches. I have no doubt there are many 

 evidences of its identity undiscovered about its site. Mrs Huggup, who 

 in her youth frequently visited at Chibburn, stated to me that the 

 farmer at that time dug up a stone cofiin, part of which may yet (or 

 at least might be the la«t time I was there) seen in a window of 

 the chapel. 



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Have you ever seen the wooden efiigy, or whatever it is, of some 

 worthy, which Mr Wm. Straker found when part of it was unfortunately 

 destroyed by that inroad of the Goths and Vandals a few years ago?" 



Chibburn Place-Names. 

 Meg's Meadow. St. John's Flat. St. John's Pasture. 



WiDDRINGTON PlaCE-NaMES. 



The High ^ The Back Laws. 



Low fHa' Bank. Peafield Hill. 



Middle 3 The Wilderness. 



The Clogg Well. The Spout Lane.f 



The Windmill Hill. Whinny Crook. 



The Pit Field. Pigg Way. 



The Chapel Well Field. Eutledge. 



* The moat may easily be traced ; it is watered by a runner bearing 

 the name of the Dunbar burn, and not the Chibburn. 



t Half way up the lane a cist and grave were found by a plough- 

 man, who broke his plough upon it. — Ex inf. Mr Jacob Annett. 



