Lyne is a small parish in the County of Peebles lying just to the west of the county town. It is bounded on the north by Eddleston with Peebles to the east, Stobo to the south and Newlands on the west. Lyne Water runs through the parish and the main settlement is around the disused station on the former Caledonian Railway line to Peebles. The church is about a mile away on a slight rise to the north of the A72. There are the remains of a Roman Fort near Lyne Water. Meggett is united with Lyne, although they have no common border. They now form part of the combined parish of Lyne & Manor although yet again the two parishes don't share a boundary.
Meggett is located on the southern edge of Peeblesshire on the border with Selkirkshire and Dumfriesshire. There is no longer a church but the ruins of St Mary's Kirkyard can be seen near the western end of St Mary's Loch.
Old Parish Records cover the periods:
Births: 1649-1854 (Mothers' names are rarely recorded until 1788)
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The Society is transcribing the Lyne Memorial Inscriptions
Volumes available for consultation within our Archive
Pre 1855 Monumental Inscriptions of Peeblesshire by S.A. Scott published by Scottish Genealogical Society 1971.
Rutherford's Southern Counties Register and Directory 1867.
County Directory of Scotland 1912 - Borders Towns and Villages.
C.D. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Peebles 1652 to 1716.
A Living Village by Andrew Fox, Elmbank Printing Services
Lyne and Megget Burial Records 1840 to 1854 as complied by the Society - held digitally.
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Map of Broughton,glenholm,kilbucho from Quarter-inch to the mile, Scotland, 1921-1923 or One-inch to the mile, Popular edition, Scotland, 1920-1930 by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland. Use the control at the top left of the map to zoom in or out and drag the map left, right, up, or down as you wish.
Other Sources
The Buildings of Scotland - Borders, Cruft, Dunbar & Fawcett, Yale University Press, London 2006
A History of Peeblesshire (3 Vol) - Buchan & Paton, , Jackson, Wylie and Co, Glasgow 1925-7
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-99 vol.12 p.556:
Lyne and Megget, County of Peebles
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1834-45 vol.3 p.121:
Lyne and Megget, County of Peebles
