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 Fort, 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 called. It is likewise claimed to be feasible to construct the remains of the cave-dwellings of the Votadini, the tribal confederation in this part of Scotland. In the 12th and also 13th centuries the Lindsays and the Earls of March and also Dunbar were the primary baronial families. Additionally of historic rate of interest is the ivy-clad wreck of the Rhymer's Tower, a keep stated to day from as very early as the 13th century. It is the traditional home of Thomas Learmonth, typically called Thomas of Ercildoune, or Thomas the Rhymer, poet, prophet, and also famous close friend of the Elves, who was birthed right here concerning 1225, more likely in a small house which preceded the later Tower-house. Locals of early Earlston (Earlstons) have since spread out far away, with some travelling to the USA of America in the early 1800s. Yet the huge bulk of Earlstons (surname) have taken house in the Black Country, West Midlands in England. Travelling to the Black Nation in the early 1700s, they have established a strong house, governed by middle youngster of the Earlston three bros, Lord Dale.
