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    Liddesdale is a district in the County of Roxburgh, southern Scotland. It includes the area of the valley of the Liddel Water that extends in a south-westerly...
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    Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, PC (17 February 1929 – 4 March 1993), was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister...
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    Sir William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale (c. 1300–1353), also known as the Knight of Liddesdale and the Flower of Chivalry, was a Scottish nobleman and...
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  • Hearts of Liddesdale Football Club was a football club based in Newcastleton, in the Scottish Borders. The club was founded in 1880 as Newcastleton. The...
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    godfather, William Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale, and was educated in France. In 1342, under pressure from Liddesdale, his uncle Hugh the Dull resigned the...
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    The Lord of Liddesdale was a magnate in the medieval Kingdom of Scotland; the territorial lordship of Liddesdale was first created by David I of Scotland...
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  • Sir Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale (c. 1293 - 11 August 1332) was the illegitimate son of King Robert the Bruce and an unknown mother. He was knighted...
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    Scotland. It stands in the remote valley of the Hermitage Water, part of Liddesdale in Roxburghshire. It is under the care of Historic Scotland. The castle...
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  • 6 December 2024. "Millom celebrates VE Day with action..." Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser. 11 August 2005. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013...
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    Strontian (/strɒnˈtiːən/; Scottish Gaelic: Sròn an t-Sìthein [s̪ɾɔːn̪ˠ ən̪ˠ ˈtʲiː.ɪn]) is the main village in Sunart, an area in western Lochaber, Highland...
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  • The location of the nominal Degsastan is not known, either; Dawstane in Liddesdale, Scotland, is a possibility. According to Bede's account in his Historia...
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  • Glen Shira Great Glen Hell's Glen Strath Fillan Yarrow, Scottish Borders Liddesdale Menstrie Glen Strathdevon Gleann Dubh Lighe Glen Affric Glen Brittle Glen...
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    HMS Liddesdale was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy built by Vickers-Armstrong in Newcastle and launched on 19 August 1940. She was laid...
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  • Newcastleton, also called Copshaw Holm, is a village in Liddesdale, the Scottish Borders, a few miles from the border with England, on the Liddel Water...
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    Jedburgh Kelso Kirk Yetholm & Town Yetholm Ladykirk Lamberton Leitholm Liddesdale Mordington Morebattle Mowhaugh Newcastleton Oxnam Paxton Roxburgh and...
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  • was some opposition, the BCR got its act: the Border Counties Railway (Liddesdale Section and Deviations) Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. xliii) got royal assent...
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    2009. Annandale was also an historic district of Scotland, bordering Liddesdale to the east, Nithsdale to the west, Clydesdale and Tweeddale to the north...
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    King (Halbert Elliot) and Dand the Man (Andrew Elliot) rode out from Liddesdale and brazenly stole 180 sheep from the Lammermuir Hills—well within sight...
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    lands of Liddesdale along with the great fortress of Hermitage Castle were made over to Bruce's illegitimate son, Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale. Bruce...
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    and made his way out of the chimney. At Byerholm near Newcastleton in Liddesdale sometime during the early 19th century, a dwarf called Robert Elliot or...
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    William II de Soules (d. 1320/1321), Lord of Liddesdale and Butler of Scotland, was a Scottish Border noble during the Wars of Scottish Independence. William...
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    This time, the Scottish assault was led by William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale. Douglas's party disguised themselves as merchants from Leith bringing...
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    of it, and several boys lost a shoe in the mud. Later the same month Liddesdale Gymnastic Society held their first meeting on the haugh at Mangerton Holm...
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    Scottish Borders. The Armstrongs became a powerful and warlike clan in Liddesdale and the Debatable Lands. Historian George Fraser Black lists Adam Armstrong...
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    an authority on banking and the arts. Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, younger son of the third Viscount, was a Conservative politician. The...
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    David II of Scotland Elizabeth Bruce Illegitimate: Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale Niall Bruce of Carrick House Bruce Father Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of...
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    Invernochty, Aberdeenshire Duffus Castle, Moray Hermitage Castle, Liddesdale Liddel Castle, Liddesdale Motte of Urr, Dumfries and Galloway Tibbers Castle, Dumfries...
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  • Tower, at the beginning of Riccarton Burn, the valley of Clan Crozier, Liddesdale Riccarton Junction railway station, a former station This disambiguation...
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    put down troubles in the north." In March 1569 Moray came from Kelso to Liddesdale and spoke to the English border warden, Sir John Forster. He was accompanied...
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    convoy work, all the Type Is, the Type IIs Avon Vale, Blencathra and Liddesdale and the Type IIIs Bleasdale and Glaisdale were fitted with a single QF...
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