Oxton, Scottish Borders
Oxton is a rural village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, just off the A68. Lauder is 4.5 miles to the south of the village. The village is 25 miles south east of the centre of Edinburgh, yet in a quiet rural position. It often gets snowed in during the winter as can be seen from some of the photos on their website and the Borders Council gritters cannot get access so villagers have to rely on the local farmers to help clear roads with tractors.
The Snow Gates are a mile up the road on the A68.
Village Website created in January 2012. There is a large amount of information here for everyone to browse through, from Village History, Tourist information to Local events. Recently added - a video of Oxton and Channelkirk (2013).[1]
The village of Oxton, lies in the parish of Channelkirk. This name for the parish appears to have come into general use in the district around the beginning of the eighteenth century but its ancient name was Childer-kirk and later Gingle-kirk. A Roman camp, visible from the air, has been identified nearby and may have been connected with the progress of the army of Septimus Severus in AD 209-210. Saint Cuthbert, who became Bishop of Lindisfarne, was born here in AD635 and probably baptised his early converts at the nearby Holy Water Cleuch (spring). The village itself was called Ugston for several hundred years and appears under that name as late as the 1841 census. As with all Scottish parishes its inhabitants were ruled by a combination of the Kirk Session and the Heritors, the latter being local landowners who were jointly responsible for funding all projects in the parish such as repairs or extensions to the church, the manse, the school, the churchyard, the schoolmaster’s house or even the river bridges, all out of their own pockets. (B.Byrom, 2012)
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Oxton's centre
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Red house at Oxton
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Oxton house and posting box
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Oxton Mains farm
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oxton, Scottish Borders. |
- CANMORE (RCAHMS): Item SC 357126, Copy of plan of Oxton Roman fort
- CANMORE (RCAHMS): ID 54608 Roman coin
- Samian ware and one sherd of a mortarium, from the roman fortlet at Oxton, Berwickshire
- RCAHMS record: Oxton, General
- RCAHMS: 19 results
- SCRAN: Willie Riddle, blacksmith, standing outside his smithy, Oxton
- Trimontium: Oxton fortlet
- Genealogy of William Houliston
- Oxton
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