Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Merton (or Mertoun)

Merton (or Mertoun), par., SW. Berwickshire, 6374 ac., pop. 682; Merton House (1702), seat of Lord Polwarth, stands on the Tweed, 2 m. NE. of St Boswells.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Mertoun ScoP       Berwickshire ScoCnty
Place names: MERTON     |     MERTON OR MERTOUN     |     MERTOUN
Place: Mertoun

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