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23-613: Greenlaw is a town and civil parish situated in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills on Blackadder Water at the junction of the A697 and the A6105 in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland . At the 2001 census , the parish had a population of 661. Greenlaw was first made the county town of Berwickshire in 1596. At that time, Greenlaw was situated about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of

46-560: A Tolbooth and Court House, hence the rhyme: "Here stands the Gospel and the Law, Wi' Hell's Hole atween the twa" A new jail was built in the town in 1824. This was used throughout the Victorian period but was taken out of use in the 20th century and demolished in the 1960s. Greenlaw Town Hall , completed in 1831, is a listed building from its county town era and was one of the buildings shortlisted in

69-525: A precious collection of 26 microscopes originally made by van Leeuwenhoek , which Home had borrowed from the Royal Society . Having qualified at Surgeons' Hall in 1778, Home was appointed assistant surgeon at the naval hospital, Plymouth . In 1787 he was appointed assistant surgeon, later surgeon, at St George's Hospital. He became Sergeant Surgeon to the King in 1808 and Surgeon at Chelsea Hospital in 1821. He

92-559: Is a Met Office weather station located at RAF Charterhall , 3 miles (5 km) to the east. Notable people born in Greenlaw include: Civil parishes in Scotland Civil parishes gained legal functions in 1845 when parochial boards were established to administer the poor law . Their local government functions were abolished in 1930 with their powers transferred to county or burgh councils. Since 1975, they have been superseded as

115-699: The Greenlaw Act 1696 (c. 16), was passed, laying down in statute that the town of Greenlaw should be the Head Burgh of Berwickshire. However, attempts were made in 1739, 1790 and 1810 to take the rights and privileges from Greenlaw and make Duns the county town once more. Though unsuccessful in their primary aim, the grounds were laid for the Berwickshire Courts Act 1853 ( 16 & 17 Vict. c. 27), which authorising sheriff and commissary courts to be held at Duns. Another courthouse, known as County Buildings,

138-667: The Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) used to administer schemes within the Common Agricultural Policy . According to the website of the General Register Office for Scotland , there are now 871 civil parishes. Civil parish boundaries originally corresponded with the ecclesiastical parishes of the Church of Scotland . As parishes used for religious functions diverged from civil parishes,

161-490: The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 , with powers being transferred to county councils in landward areas of counties and burgh councils where they were within a burgh. Their boundaries continued to be used to define some of the local authorities created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and they continue to be used for census purposes. They are used as part of the coding system for agricultural holdings under

184-619: The 2006 BBC television series Restoration Village . Greenlaw Golf Club (now defunct) first appeared in the mid-1920s. The club disappeared some time in the 1950s. Shops include the Blackadder Mini-market, Romanes pharmacy, Waldie's butchers and the Village Store. The Post Office closed in 2010 and Greenlaw is now served by a mobile post office. There was a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland , but this closed in 2014. Since 1992

207-544: The Centre an idea of what weather to expect during their visit. The website has grown and is now a respected member of a nationwide chain of independent weather stations and its webcam is viewed by thousands daily during periods of snow. The web designer of the site also established the Interactive Independent Climate Change Project which records data from a number of amateur Weather Stations around

230-558: The Picture House, Paisley. The Centre draws visitors to Greenlaw from all over the world and the resident organist of the Centre, Larry McGuire, was one of the two people ultimately responsible for saving the Edinburgh Playhouse from demolition in 1975. An amateur Weather Centre was established at the Centre in 2006, the data from which was launched as bordersweather.co.uk, which website was initially conceived to give travellers to

253-627: The UK, some of whom have data going back for over 25 years. Greenlaw Castle was a manor house located to the east of the town. It was owned by a branch of the Home family, including the surgeon Robert Boyne Home (1713–1786), father of Sir Everard Home and Anne Hunter . It ceased to be used as a laird 's house in 1729, and was demolished around 1820. Places nearby include Eccles , Legerwood , Gordon , Westruther , Polwarth , Fogo , Leitholm and Duns . Greenlaw has an oceanic climate ( Köppen : Cfb ). There

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276-484: The autumn of 1776 he partly described Hunter's collection. There is also considerable evidence that Home plagiarized Hunter's work, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly; he also systematically destroyed his brother-in-law's papers in order to hide evidence of this plagiarism. It seems likely that the fire (in Home's apartments at Chelsea Hospital) which destroyed the Hunterian manuscripts in Home's possession also destroyed

299-451: The burgh was termed the landward area. Until 1891 some parishes lay in more than one county . In that year, under the terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889 , the boundaries of most of the civil parishes and counties were realigned so that each parish was wholly within a single county. In 1894 the parochial boards were replaced by more democratically elected parish councils. Parish councils were in turn abolished in 1930, under

322-425: The county town for all purposes. There is also a fine church, built in 1675, on earlier foundations. The corbie step gables preserve a feature of the architecture of that period. The church was expanded during the eighteenth century and completed in its present form around 1855. After Greenlaw became a county town in 1696, the church tower was planned as a tolbooth or prison and was completed by 1712. Its style

345-642: The former became known as quoad sacra parishes . Since 1975, Scotland has been divided into community council areas which are often similar to civil parishes in their boundaries. These community council are not equivalent to English parish councils and Welsh community councils and do not have legal powers of their own but in some cases local authorities have a legal obligation to consult them. Everard Home Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet , FRS (6 May 1756, in Kingston upon Hull – 31 August 1832, in London )

368-472: The present village, atop a hill - the 'Green Law'. This area is now known as Old Greenlaw. In 1661, county town status was lost to Duns by an act of Parliament, the Duns Act 1661 (c. 136). When Patrick, Earl of Marchmont attained the barony of Greenlaw in the 1670s, he made it his business to restore what he saw as the rights and privileges that came with the barony. In 1696 he succeeded: an act of Parliament,

391-451: The smallest unit of local administration in Scotland by community councils . Civil parishes in Scotland can be dated from 1845, when parochial boards were established to administer the poor law . While they originally corresponded to the parishes of the Church of Scotland , the number and boundaries of parishes soon diverged. Where a parish contained a burgh , the area of the parish outside

414-692: The village has been home to ' STOPS' , the Scottish Theatre Organ Preservation Society, which Charitable Trust created its base in a custom converted building now known as the New Palace Theatre Organ Heritage Centre, in the 75 seat multi-purpose auditorium of which is housed the world famous Hilsdon organ from the Edinburgh Playhouse as well as the Hilsdon organs of the Palace Picture House, Edinburgh and

437-521: Was a British surgeon . Home was born in Kingston-upon-Hull and educated at Westminster School . He gained a scholarship to Trinity College , Cambridge , but decided instead to become a pupil of his brother-in-law, John Hunter , at St George's Hospital . Hunter had married his sister, the poet and socialite Anne Home , in July 1771. He assisted Hunter in many of his anatomical investigations, and in

460-458: Was adapted to present the appearance of a Church Tower. It is unique in structure – square rising to a height of 60 ft (18 m) and ending in a corballed parapet from which an 18 ft (5.5 m) steeple rises. The old iron gate or yett is the original one of 1712. A Court House also completed in 1712 stood on the west side of the tower, therefore by 1712 there stood by the side of the Church,

483-562: Was made a baronet (of Well Manor in the County of Southampton) in 1813. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787, gave their Croonian Lecture many times between 1793 and 1829 and received their Copley Medal in 1807. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1832. Home published prolifically on human and animal anatomy . He

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506-586: Was subsequently built at 8 Newtown Street in Duns in 1856. When Berwickshire County Council was created it held its first meeting on 22 May 1890 at County Hall in Greenlaw, when it decided by 18 votes to 12 that all subsequent meetings should be held at Duns. Greenlaw was still considered the official county town after 1890, despite the county council meeting in Duns and courts being held at both towns. The Berwickshire County Town Act 1903 ( 3 Edw. 7 . c. 5) finally revoked Greenlaw's status as county town and declared Duns to be

529-431: Was the first to describe the fossil creature (later ' Ichthyosaur ') discovered near Lyme Regis by Joseph Anning and Mary Anning in 1812. Following John Hunter , he initially suggested it had affinities with fish. Home also did some of the earliest studies on the anatomy of platypus and noted that it was not viviparous , theorizing that it was instead ovoviviparous . He was also the first to propose that melanin acts

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