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

• 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

• List of places in the Scottish Borders
• List of places in Scotland

References

• 1952 Hawick Archaeological Society 1952 transactions: Walter Brydon, Crailing and its associations, pp 7–8

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crailing, Scottish Borders.

• CANMORE/RCAHMS record of Crailing House, Old Burial Ground, Crailing Churchyard
• National Archives of Scotland: Parish of Crailing
• RCAHMS record of Crailing Tofts
• British Listed Buildings: West Lodge, Crailing House, Crailing
• BBC, WW2 People's War: Article ID: A6204502

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