Old Photograph Tweeddale Arms Hotel Gifford Scotland

Old photograph of the Tweeddale Arms Hotel in Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland. The village takes its name from Sir Hugo de Giffard of Yester, whose ancient Scoto-Norman family possessed the baronies of Yester, Morham, and Duncanlaw in Haddingtonshire, and Tayling and Poldame in the counties of Perthshire and Forfar. The Mercat Cross was built in 1780 and is still standing in the centre of the village. The present church building in Gifford was built in 1710. James Witherspoon was installed there as minister in 1720. It was his son John who signed the American Declaration of Independence.



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