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Notes on Coldingham. 

 By Mrs Wood, Woodburn, Galashiels. 



So much has already been written about Coldingham that 

 one is inclined to think that there is little left to say, but 

 the whole place abounds with interest, and the more one 

 wanders about it, the more one feels the truth of what I 

 have heard Canon Greenwell say — "The history of Colding- 

 ham has yet to be written." These notes, which I venture 

 to offer for the pages of the Club's Proceedings, are in no 

 way a contribution to its history, but a mere gathering up 

 of the life of the place. 



The village itself lies on a strip of flat land, which stretches 

 along the sea-board from the farm of Northfield as far as 

 Eyemouth. The visitor who comes down the long descent 

 from Keston expects when he reaches Cairncross farmhouse, 

 and sees the sea, that Coldingham will also come into view ; 

 but it is not for another mile and a half, and then quite 

 suddenly, that the church comes in sight, and, as this striking 

 object — so unlike any other church in the Border counties — 

 occupies his attention, he forgets to look at the houses nestling 

 so cosily in the shelter of the hill. The situation is one of 

 much beauty ; the great Head of St. Abbs' in the distance ; 

 the magnificent boundary of sea which, though fully a mile 

 off, is seen from all parts of the village, and is a never 



