Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Canonbie, parish
Grid reference
NY 395 763 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
339500 576300
Latitude
55.07739862444815
Longitude
-2.9477090158057564
Nearby places
St Martin's Church, Canonbie (0 miles)
Kirkandrews on Esk, parish now in England (2.74 miles)
Kirkandrews, eccles. Kirkandrews on Esk (2.74 miles)
Kirkandrews, settlement, Kirkandrews on Esk (2.76 miles)
Morton, parish (3.99 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for St Martin's Church, Canonbie.
Relationships with other places
Contains Mungo's Faulds, Canonbie
Parish details
Canonbie
Parish TLA
CAN
County
Dumfriesshire
Medieval diocese
Glasgow
Parish notes
Cowan gives deanery as Eskdale/ Annandale (1967); New Atlas gives deanery as Esk (sic) (1996, 351).
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Canonbie
Head name
Canonbie
Place
Canonbie, 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?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Cannabie 1560, Assumption
Historic formCannabie Head nameCanonbie PlaceCanonbie, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAssumption Date of citation1560 x 1570 Feature named in sourcepriory of |
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