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Berwickshire
Berwickshire is an historic county of Scotland. (For more information about the ancient counties of the UK, see the historic counties page and the place types page.)
From The Topographical, Statistical, and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland, 1847:
The county of Berwick forms the south-east extremity of Scotland, and lies on the coast of the German ocean, and along the north-east border of England.
Its principal division was anciently called The Merse, or March, a name which it still retains, and which probably signifies the Border-district, or frontier province ... This denomination, the Merse, is still often used, loosely for the whole county.
Berwickshire is bounded on the east by the German ocean ... The western irregular limit of Berwickshire is partly with Mid-Lothian, towards the north, but chiefly with Roxburghshire.
Berwickshire is a strictly pastoral and agricultural district. The only manufacture of any importance, within the county, is that of paper, at Broomhouse, Ayton, and Allan-bank paper mills.
The county was named for Berwick-upon-Tweed, which ws once the county-town.
Also known as Berwick, Merse.
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