Allanton, a village in Edrom parish, Berwickshire, situated at the confluence of the Blackadder and Whitadder, both spanned by bridges here, and 2¼ miles E of Edrom station on the Dunse branch of the North British. It has a school, with accommodation for 95 children, an average attendance (1879) of 34, and a grant of £28:¾ mile S by E is a Free church, with 450 sittings. Blackadder House, Allanbank, and Chirnside Bridge paper-mill are also near.
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