definitions; Hermitage, Ermydoune, and Armstrong

Hermitage; is felt to mean  a place where a hermit lives or an Army Fort/Guard house.

A hermit house;

 

An army house;

 

 

 

With Soulis owning it, it could have been either, a hermit or army (guard) house.

Though one of the for districts it was in was;

 

 

with the spelling of Ermytag, have a tendency to think army house or guardhouse to be correct.

Ermydoune, one of the four districts of Liddesdale 1376, is felt to be named Ermy (army), -doune (fort), the region of the Ermytag (Hermitage or army house/guardhouse).

 

 

Armstrong; (strong arm); as seen on;

The to of the Milnholm Cross;

But;

 

The top shied with arm symbol was added;

 

in the nineteenth century.

In the fourteenth century the earliest known writing;

Robert de Lawis (likely Robert Elwald of Lawis (Hermitage Hill))

The name seems to be Armystrand.

Given;

 

Which means; an army along a river bank.

Map;

In the 1576 Saxton, map do the peel towers of the Armstrong, with Mangerton, north of Whitehaugh, on the river (Liddel), does it look like an army strand?

MSE 1/28/2014