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imparted its name to the parish. This site was adjacent to a pre-reformation chapel at
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The area of the parish of Yarrow was formerly one of the most extensive in the south of
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The old name of the parish was St. Mary's or, in some records, St Mary of the Lowes, from its vicinity to two considerable lochs (Loch of the Lowes and St. Mary's Loch). In the year 1640, the parish church was moved from the vicinity of St. Mary's Loch to the banks of the Yarrow, which henceforth
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