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The 'burn' part of the name comes from the stream which runs through the village.The 'chat' part is either an Old English personal name 'Ceatta', or the word 'ceat', which means 'piece of wet ground

The Blue Pool at Furzebrook, the best known of Purbeck's former heathland claypits was dug by Watts, Hatherley and Burns of Newton Abbot, in 1846.

Edinburgh fell, Holyrood was burnt. In 1544 the English were back, burning five towns, sacking 243 villages, and destroying Roslin Castle.

The stained glass chancel window of the four evangelists is by Burne Jones, and executed by William Morris & Co.

Many of these were employed in ironworking, chemical manufacturing and coal-mining, or in Nobel's dynamite works at Ardeer.The novelist John Galt was born in the town in 1779, but Irvine is more famous

The halfpenny toll on the original Blackfriars Bridge caused riots, and in 1780 angry protesters burned down the toll-house.After a succession of expensive repairs a replacement was suggested, and

Further along Marine Parade is the coastguard station (right) opposite the Custom House, the latte replacing an earlier building in the middle of the town which burned down in 1844.

Inverkip joined in the burnings, becoming a notorious centre for following the Bible's demand that, 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'.

She remembers the two classrooms with old paraffin lamps and tortoise stoves which 'used to get red hot so we burned in the front and shivered in the back'.

However, Queen Boudica, who led the last British revolt against the Romans, soon burned it to the ground. The last survivors of the colony were burnt or massacred in the Temple of Claudius.

On the site of the gardens of the Old Rectory was the windmill, which burned down in 1802 and yet again within 30 years.

'Locomotion' was one of the stars of the S&DR centenary celebrations in 1925, though the old girl was not quite herself; her power came from a hidden petrol engine, and the smoke from her chimney was burning

The statue is of Burns's Highland Mary, who was born at Auchnamore Farm nearby. The statue was erected in 1896.

However, Queen Boudica, who led the last British revolt against the Romans, soon burned it to the ground. The last survivors of the colony were burnt or massacred in the Temple of Claudius.

But in 1727, a company of players gave a performance in a nearby barn. So popular was it, that the doors were nailed shut to prevent any more people from getting in.

The 13th-century church of St Margaret, on the edge of the park, was struck by lightning in 1598 and largely burned to the ground.

The village of Braemar is situated on the banks of Cluny Burn.

The last mill burned down in 1905, though at one point there had been two mills here - one paper, one wheat. Coal, timber, lime and dung were the other major cargoes passing through.

Rawcliffe Hall was nearby, the home of the outrageous Squire Rawcliffe who burned down a windmill one bonfire night.

Inverkip joined in the burnings, becoming a notorious centre for following the Bible's demand that, 'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live'.

The theatre burned down in 1926; plays then had to be performed in a local cinema.

The chimney and high building to the right of the church was a clothing factory built in 1852 - it burned down in 1944.

Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.

It was burned down around 1900 and given a tiled octagonal roof with dormers and a weather vane.