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Re: Chapel Well (Beckton) by Anonymous on Saturday, 13 May 2023

Another reference to the Chapel Well is contained in the 1824 publication: CALEDONIA OR AN ACCOUNT HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHIC OF NORTH BRITAIN FROM THE MOST ANCIENT TO THE PRESENT TIMES Chalmers Vol III
.........Besides the chapel of Little Hutton, there were two other chapels, in this parish ; one at Becktoun, and the other at Quaas : (k) The vestiges of this chapel may still be seen ; and its font serves, for the market cross, at Locherbie. The chapel at Becktoun belonged of old to the Knights Templars: (l) The traces of the graves, in its appropriate burying-ground, are still manifest ; and there is here also, a copious spring, which was once frequented, as a consecrated well. .........
(l) The Templars had some lands adjacent to this chapel, which were called the chapel lands; they had also other lands, in the parish of Dryfesdale.

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