Old photograph of the school in Oxton, Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish village is located 25 miles south east of the centre of Edinburgh. The village of Oxton was called Ugston for several hundred years and appears under that name as late as the 1841 census. As with all Scottish parishes its inhabitants were ruled by a combination of the Kirk Session and the Heritors, the latter being local landowners who were jointly responsible for funding all projects in the parish such as repairs or extensions to the church, the manse, the school, the churchyard, the schoolmaster’s house, and even the river bridges, all out of their own pockets. Saint Cuthbert, who became Bishop of Lindisfarne, was born here in AD635 and probably baptised his early converts at the nearby Holy Water Cleuch.
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