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ANCRUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANCRUM , a See also:

village on See also:Ale or Alne See also:Water (a tributary of the See also:Teviot), See also:Roxburghshire, See also:Scotland, 2 M. W. of Jedfoot See also:Bridge station on the Roxburgh-See also:Jedburgh See also:branch of the See also:North See also:British railway. Pop. (1901) 973. The earlier forms of the name, " Alnecrumba," "Ankrom "and" Alnecrom," indicate its Gaelic derivation from crom, "crooked "—" the crook or See also:bend of the For See also:information on the subject of Tarent Kaines see See also:Sir W. See also:Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum (new ed., 1846), vol. v. 619 et seq. Alne." The village is of considerable antiquity, and was formerly held by the see of See also:Glasgow. Its See also:cross, said to date from the See also:time of See also:David I., is one of the best preserved crosses in the Border counties. Ancrum See also:Moor, 2 m. N.W., was the See also:scene of the See also:battle in which, on the 17th of See also:February 1545, the Scots under the See also:earl. of See also:Angus, Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott of See also:Buccleuch, and See also:Norman See also:Leslie, defeated 5000 See also:English, whose leaders, Sir See also:Ralph Evers orEure and Sir See also:Brian Latoun or Layton, were slain. A See also:Roman road, 24 ft. broad, forms the N.E. boundary of the See also:parish of Ancrum.

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