Earlston
Earlston is a civil parish and market community in the region of Berwickshire, within the Scottish Borders. It gets on the River Leader in Lauderdale, Scotland. Earlston was initially called Arcioldun or Prospect Ft, with reference to Black Hill (1,003 feet (306 m)), on the top of which can still be mapped the concentric rings of the British fort for which it was named. It is additionally stated to be feasible to make out the remains of the cave-dwellings of the Votadini, the tribal confederation in this part of Scotland. In the 12th as well as 13th centuries the Lindsays as well as the Earls of March and Dunbar were the chief baronial family members. Also of historic passion is the ivy-clad ruin of the Rhymer's Tower, a keep said to date from as very early as the 13th century. It is the standard residence of Thomas Learmonth, typically called Thomas of Ercildoune, or Thomas the Rhymer, poet, prophet, and legendary pal of the Elves, who was born right here concerning 1225, more likely in a cottage which came before the later Tower-house. Citizens of early Earlston (Earlstons) have considering that spread afar, with some travelling to the USA of America in the very early 1800s. But the substantial bulk of Earlstons (last name) have actually taken residence in the Black Country, West Midlands in England. Travelling to the Black Nation in the early 1700s, they have set up a solid home, governed by middle child of the Earlston three brothers, Lord Dale.
