If you took the Great North Road (A1) from London to Edinburgh by way of Newcastle and Berwick, a building you would have seen soon after crossing the border into Scotland would have been the little presbyterian church at Houndwood, which stood on the right hand side of the road. The road was re-aligned last year and now Houndwood Church is a much quieter place.
The church was built in 1901.
Although the church closed recently, the burial ground is still in use and includes this memorial to those parishioners who fell in the Great War 1914 to 1918, with further names added of those who gave their lives in World War 2, 1939 to 1945.
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