Old photograph of the parish church in Longformacus in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. There has been a church on this site on the south side of Dye Water since 1243, Extensively rebuilt from a ruinous state in 1730, repaired 1830 and renovated 1892 by George Fortune. Stained glass by Marjorie Kemp and G J Baguley including windows in memory of the Brown family of Longformacus and the Smiths of Whitchester. Longformacus is a village and parish in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. It is located six miles north west of Duns, in the Lammermuir Hills. The Dye Water runs through the village, flowing east towards its confluence with the Whiteadder Water nearby. The opera Lucia di Lammermoor, written by Gaetano Donizetti and based on Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor, was set in Longformacus. The Southern Upland Way, a Long Distance Route which crosses southern Scotland, passes through the village, and the Sir Walter Scott Way from Moffat to Cockburnspath passes through Longformacus. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day
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