A beautiful and historic detached property that is completely free from all of the constraints associated with a listed building, Headchesters is also the former coaching inn on the A1107 Berwickshire Coastal Route and features in several publications and maps - sometimes annotated as "Highchester", "Head Chester" or "Hoechesters" on 17th century maps.  

Follow the links in blue below to see some of those historical book and map references:

BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS

1) "History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club": Published 1834
https://books.google.co.uk/Headchesters_1834

2) "The Birds of Berwickshire (Volume 2); With Remarks on Their Local Distribution Migration, and Habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them": Published 1889
https://books.google.co.uk/Headchesters_1889

3) "Paterson's Roads, in a Pocket Size, for the Convenience of Travellers on Horseback" (pages 49 & 221) by Daniel Paterson, Sir Francis Freeling: Published 1804
https://books.google.co.uk/Headchesters_roads_mileage

4) National Records of Scotland 1841 Census, Parish of Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Enumeration Book 4, Page 8
https://www.scottishindexes.com/Headchesters_1841_census

5) National Records of Scotland 1851 Census, Parish of Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Enumeration Book 2, Page 9
https://www.scottishindexes.com/Headchesters_1851_census

MAPS

1) Blaeu Atlas of Scotland: 1654
https://maps.nls.uk/Hoechesters

2) Berwickshire survey map: 1797, by John Blackadder. Engraved by J Ainslie Land Surveyor, Edinburgh
https://maps.nls.uk/Highchester (Look directly above the circular annotation in the middle of your screen!)

3) National Library of Scotland: Berwickshire IV.4 (Cockburnspath). Survey date: 1856, Publication date: 1857
https://maps.nls.uk/Headchesters_1857