Index for Farm names

[J Hannan]

Horseridge from the Carham burials in the Parish Register of St Cuthberts church. It stated that he died in Horseridge, North Britain which was the name for Scotland a the time. As Carham is officially an English village the farm would be classed as in England, but if the farm was in the north of the Parish it could actually have been in Scotland.

[sancti]

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2775963

http://www.geolocation.ws/v/E/2901702/lane-horse-rig/en

[carolmichelle]

hi it certainly looks like horseridge to me  however think you hav typed date in wrong. date should read as april 23rd 1793.

[J Hannan]

You are correct it is 1793. I get so excited when I can find someone that can help me that I tend to mess up.

[J Hannan]

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2775963

http://www.geolocation.ws/v/E/2901702/lane-horse-rig/en
Thanks for the pictures of Horse Rigg.

I found this reference to Horse Ridge:
COLDSMOUTH AND THOMPSON'S WALLS TOWNSHIP.

The origin of this modern township^ is very obscure. Possibly it was
a conglomeration of various small vills clustered round the north side of
Cheviot of which the traces have been lost in modern times.

Thompson's Walls, formerly Antechester. — In a survey of the
barony of Wark in Oueen Elizabeth's day there is an allusion to
' the parcell of ground commonlie called Thompson's Walls, or Antechester,
a member of Kilham, h'ing between Kilham and Shotton,'* but Mr. Bates
in his Border Holds attributes quite another site to Antechester, placing
it on the high ground to the west of Mindrum between the range of Horse
Ridge and the Camp Hill, being led to do so by various maps of North-
umberland dating from the later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries.^
To place it so far north and across Bowmont water is quite inadmissible
in view of an allusion to ' Chester' in a 1223 boundary delimitation of Trollop,
which on one side touched the College,^ and of its association with Kilham

[carolmichelle]

hey sometimes before i write todays date have too think what century i,m in.  Will go on the hunt tomorrow if the weather here allows, first snow tonite.

[IMBER]

So Horse Rigg and Horseridge appear to be one and the same place. In this context Rig and Ridge mean the same thing. If the place of death was reported to someone verbally it probably could have been written either way. At that point in time the term "North Britain" was sometimes taken to include the far north of England.

[Flattybasher9]

Just to throw another in the works, Drumchapel translates from the Gaelic "druim" and "capall",
 "Horse Ridge".

Regards

Malky

[J Hannan]

That is very informative, but Glasgow is not on the Border, so I would have to rule that out.