Crailing is a village on the A698, in Teviotdale, 4m east of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the historic county of Roxburghshire.
Places nearby include Ancrum, Crailinghall, Eckford, Hownam, Kelso, Nisbet, Roxburghshire, the Oxnam Water, the River Teviot.
Notable people and events[edit]
- Robert Aitken (preacher) (1800—1873)
- Thomas Oliver (architect) (1791—1857)
- Crailing played an important role in the early history of Clan Oliphant. Sir David Olifard, who is commonly held to be the progenitor of the clan, in 1141 got lands at Crailing from King David I of Scotland whose life Olifard had saved.
- Rory Bremner bought Crailing House near Jedburgh in September in 2009.[1][2]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Updated: Comedian Rory Bremner quitting Borders after putting home near Jedburgh on market for £1.7m". www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
- ^ Penny Churchill, Rory Bremner’s ‘magical Borders retreat’ for sale after 10 happy years and a ‘labour of love’ restoration, Country Life, 16 November 2019
- 1952 Hawick Archaeological Society 1952 transactions: Walter Brydon, Crailing and its associations, pp 7–8