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Autumn colour on the road Oxnam to Hownam road
Beech trees are particularly colourful at this time of year.
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 27 Oct 2010
0.08 miles
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The "Oxnam Stell"
Situated at the entrance to Oxnam Parish Churchyard, this miniature stell was built in the summer of 2001 by local dyker Brian Purves to be a reminder of the foot and mouth cull of April that year. 4732 cattle and 21,319 sheep in Oxnam Valley had to be slaughtered to contain the disease. The centre boulder comes from Crailinghall, which suffered the greatest loss of stock, and the 26 cope stones topping the wall all come from farms where slaughter took place. The site information board names all the individual farms. (Source: from the site board).
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 24 Nov 2007
0.08 miles
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The entrance to Oxnam Churchyard
By the main entrance gates and wall to the churchyard is a mounting stone and on the left is a monument in the form of a miniature stell by a local dyker. See
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Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 24 Nov 2007
0.08 miles
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Information board at the "Oxnam Stell"
Tells the story behind the miniature stell
Image at the entrance to Oxnam Parish Churchyard.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 24 Nov 2007
0.08 miles
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The watch house at Oxnam Parish Churchyard
A small building at the southeast corner of the churchyard, used as a watch over newly interred corpses in the days when body snatchers were prevalent. A window on the north wall has been built up.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 19 Apr 2008
0.10 miles
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The Parish Church at Oxnam
This lovely kirk is fully described in Walter Baxter's fine interpretation see
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Image: © James Denham
Taken: 20 Feb 2009
0.10 miles
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Oxnam Kirk in Roxburghshire.
The first mention of the church at Oxenham was in 1153 when Geoffrey de Perci granted it to the monks of Jedburgh Abbey. Much renewal and renovation later took place until a new church, the present was built in 1738. More renovations took place in 1879 and 1954. (Ref : The Churches and Graveyards of Roxburgh -G.A.C. Binnie.2001)
Image: © James Denham
Taken: 27 Oct 2010
0.10 miles
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Oxnam Church
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 15 Sep 2006
0.10 miles
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Headstone detail at Oxnam Parish Church
The top part of this symbolic stone set into the south wall of the church has two winged souls, emblems of immortality.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 24 Nov 2007
0.10 miles
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Oxnam Parish Church jougs
A close up of the jougs, complete with padlock, on the south wall of the church. The iron collar would be put round an offender's neck as a form of punishment.
Image: © Walter Baxter
Taken: 19 Apr 2008
0.11 miles