Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Manor, parish
Grid reference
NT 220 379 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
322000 637900
Latitude
55.62841064401666
Longitude
-3.2389404296449675
Nearby places
Lady's Well, Peebles (1.89 miles)
Peebles, parish (2.24 miles)
St Andrew's Church, Peebles (2.24 miles)
St Ninians Chapel, settlement KDT (2.33 miles)
Stobo, parish (2.36 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for the modern parish church, but it seems to be on the site of earlier churches.
Relationships with other places
Contains St Gordian's Kirk, ~eccles, Manor
Parish details
Manor originally a chapel of Peebles PLS.
Parish TLA
MAN
County
Peebleshire
Medieval diocese
Glasgow
Parish notes
In origin a chapel of Peebles, for which see, it appears to have attained full parochial status in the 16th c.. See Cowan 1967, 142-3 for more details and references.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Manor
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Manor
Place
Manor, parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Maybe
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Mennor 1560, Assumption
Historic formMennor This is not a hagiotoponym. Head nameManor PlaceManor, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAssumption, 251 Date of citation1560 x 1570 Feature named in sourcekirk |
Source code
Assumption
Source title
The Books of Assumption of the Thirds of Benefices: Scottish Ecclesiastical Rentals at the Reformation
Editors
J. Kirk
Series
Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, 21
Year
1995
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