Haggis Highway: Open Views Traditional Cache
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Haggis Highway: Open Views
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Cache placed to the South of the village Eccles, it is thought the place name has Celtic origins.
It is said that there was a Christian enclave at Eccles in the sixth century or possibly before. Watson gives the derivation as most likely from the Welsh (or Cumbric) eglwys meaning church and places with this name element are thought to indicate ancient Christian sites. Gospatric, Earl of Dunbar (or his wife) founded St. Mary's Cistercian convent at Eccles in 1156. It was burnt by the Earl of Hertford's forces in 1545, then laicised to the Home family. Only two barrel-vaulted cells of the east range at the west end of the churchyard survive as well as architectural fragments built into later garden walls, although the parish church, rebuilt in 1774, may include some mediaeval stones. Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar who died on the last day of 1232 was interred in the convent at Eccles.
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