128 NOTES ON COLDINGHAM 



ago, a very old residenter of Coldingham, told me that her 

 grandmother was tenant of Cole Mill, and relinquished it 

 before her tack was out in favour of the Logans. Mrs 

 Logan was a London lady, and it was she who planned 

 the present house, and, after the London fashion, made the 

 public rooms to be reached by a flight of steps, with the 

 kitchens and offices below. 



The old Cole Mill still exists, a picturesque ruin on the 

 burn side, half way between Milldown House and the sea 



There is a saying current in Coldingham, and often uttered 

 when the sea is heard rushing over the rocks at Milldown, 



" When Milldown brews, Coldingham rues." 



Oairncross and Whitecross are names which indicate to us 

 the sites of crosses where pilgrims on their way to the 

 abbey might say a prayer, or the passer-by rest and think. 

 The Crossgait is perhaps the street where the market cross 

 still stands. 



Not far up the steep bit of road which leads from the 

 Burnhall bridge, on the way to North field, one comes 

 to a gap in the hedge, filled in with a paling. The place 

 goes by the name of Applin Cross, and in the field close 

 by, when the plague devastated the country, its victims at 

 Coldingham were interred. Applin Cross is, Dr Hardy told 

 the writer, a corruption of the very touching designation, 

 "the Appealing Cross." 



' Paradise is still applied to the piece of ground close to 

 the old parish school. The name Paradise was given to 

 the garden of a convent, and sometimes to the whole space 

 included within the circuit of a convent. If this was 

 actually a garden of the priory the site was well chosen, 

 sheltered as it is, and sunny, and watered by the Cole 

 burn, which runs along the foot of the gardens of the 

 present Paradise. 



St. Michael's Mount, as the monks styled it — or the Michael 

 knowe or Michael's knowe, as it is known in common 

 parlance nowadays — is a knoll in a field near Scoutscroft, 

 bounded on the north by the road to Burnhall bridge, apd 

 pn the east by the minister's glebe. Many British graves 



