Duns

Duns, a police-burgh of Berwickshire, 44 miles ESE. of Edinburgh (by rail 56), since 1853 has divided with Greenlaw the rank of county town, and has a town-hall, county buildings, and a corn exchange. Thomas Boston was a native; and on round turf-clad Duns Law, which rises 700 feet above the sea, and 280 above the town, General Leslie encamped with the Covenanting host in 1639. The form Dunse was altered in 1882 to Duns, the spelling till 1740. Pop. (1834) 2656; (1881) 2437; (1891) 2198.