Fogo
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| Fogo | |
| Berwickshire | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NT7649 |
| Location: | 55°43’54"N, 2°18’3"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 161 |
| Post town: | Duns |
| Postcode: | TD11 |
| Dialling code: | 01360 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Scottish Borders |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk |
Fogo is a village and parish in Berwickshire, located three miles south of Duns, on the Blackadder Water.
The name Fogo means "foggage pit, den or hollow".
Other places nearby include the Crosshall cross, Gavinton, the Greenknowe Tower, Greenlaw, Edrom, Eccles, Hume Castle, Leitholm, Longformacus, Polwarth, Swinton, and Westruther.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Fogo) |
- Gazetteer for Scotland: Parish of Fogo
- RCAHMS/Canmore record for Fogo Bridge
- Historic Scotland: Fogo Parish, Fogorig Farmhouse
- Scottish Borders Council: Fogo Nursery at Fogo Old School
- BBC: Coat of arms of Gavinton, Fogo and Polwarth explained
- GENUKI: Fogo
- Ancestor research at Fogo Parish Churchyard, Berwickshire
- History of Fogo Kirk
- Old Roads of Scotland: Fogo
