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Cranshaws

village in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ5182255 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cranshaws is a village on the B6355 road, near Duns, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Berwickshire.

Of Cranshaws Castle only the tower remains, at Cranshaws Farm on Cranshaws Hill.

Places nearby include Abbey St Bathans, Innerwick, Longformacus, Spott, East Lothian, Stenton, the Whiteadder Water, and Whittingehame.

See also

List of places in the Scottish Borders

List of places in Scotland

Patrick Hepburn of Waughton

References

Brooke, C J (2000) Safe sanctuaries: security and defence in Anglo-Scottish border churches 1290-1690, Edinburgh, pages 50–1

Fleming, Elma Berwickshire Monumental Inscriptions XIII Cranshaws, publ. Borders Family History Society

Slater, Isaac (1886). Slater's (later Pigot and Co's) Royal national commercial directory and topography of Scotland. Manchester: Isaac Slater. pp. 331–332. Retrieved 31 December 2019.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cranshaws” as village in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1290, 1690, 1886—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cranshaws, village and Scottish can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5182255. Authority coordinates are 55.850, -2.517. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000, 1290, 1690 and 1886.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Cranshaws”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Cranshaws primary sources, Cranshaws archive and Cranshaws research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Cranshaws”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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This entry incorporates text from “Cranshaws” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.