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Carlops, General

Village (18th Century)

Site Name Carlops, General

Classification Village (18th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Carlops, Weaving Village; Carlin's Loup; Carlins; Carline's; Carlines

Canmore ID 121971

Site Number NT15NE 49

NGR NT 16099 55933

NGR Description Centred NT 16099 55933

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Linton (Tweeddale)
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Tweeddale
  • Former County Peebles-shire

Archaeology Notes

NT15NE 49 centred 16099 55933

See also NT15NE 31.

(Location cited as NT 161 560). Weaving village, founded 1784 by Robert Brown of Newhall. Two ranges of single-storey harled cottages, one of four houses, the other of six, and a two-storey block of four houses. The Allan Ramsay Hotel, a two-storey, eight-bay building which may have been a wool store, dates from 1792.

J R Hume 1976.

Architecture Notes

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE

Papers and a sketch relating to the repair of Carlops Bridge.

1700-01 GD 18/1381

Building of parapets on Carlops Bridge. Account spent by John William.

1762-63 GD 18/1410

Activities

Sbc Note

The original settlement comprised a small mansion and an inn, there are now rows of weavers cottages, a hotel, mills, a farmhouse, and a drinking fountain. Carlops enjoyed a short period of prosperity and since then has remained quiet. There are records of much coal mining and quarrying in the area of Carlops.

Information from Scottish Borders Council

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