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Paxton House is a historic house at Paxton, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders, a few miles south-west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, overlooking the River Tweed. It is a country house built for Patrick Home of Billie in an unsuccessful attempt to woo a Prussian heiress.
Paxton is a small village near the B6461 and the B6460, in the pre-1975 ancient county of Berwickshire, now an administrative area of the Scottish Borders region of Scotland. It lies 1 mile west of the border with Northumberland , near Berwick-upon-Tweed .
Paxton House Estate, North Lodge And West Lodge Including Boundary Walls, Railings, Gates And Piers 55°45′59″N 2°06′32″W / 55.766264°N 2.108795°W / 55.766264; -2.108795 ( Paxton House Estate, North Lodge And West Lodge Including Boundary Walls, Railings, Gates And
Paxton House may refer to: in Scotland. Paxton House, Berwickshire; in the United States (by state) Paxton House (Brookhaven, Mississippi), listed on the NRHP in ...
Whiteadder Water / ˈ hw ʌ t ə d ər / [1] is a river in East Lothian and Berwickshire, Scotland. It also flows for a very short distance through Northumberland before joining the River Tweed . In common with the headwaters of the Biel Water it rises on the low hillside of Clints Dod (122 m or 400 ft) in the Lammermuir Hills , just ESE of ...
Ninian Home was born in 1732 in Scotland and made his fortune from his plantations in Grenada which enabled him to purchase Paxton House, Berwickshire from his uncle, Patrick Home, in 1773. [2] [3] Home was sent to Virginia as a young man to earn his living. From 1764 Home spent much of his time in Grenada where he owned two plantations which ...
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Map of places in the Scottish Borders compiled from this list See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties.. This list of places in the Scottish Borders includes towns, villages, hamlets, castles, golf courses, historic houses, hillforts, lighthouses, nature reserves, reservoirs, rivers, and other places of interest in the Scottish Borders council area of Scotland