PAXTON, a village, in the parish of Hutton, county
of Berwick, 45 miles (W.) from Berwick; containing
284 inhabitauts. Tliis is a pleasant little village in the
eastern quarter of the parish, and on the west bank of
the Tweed, which is crossed by a handsome suspensionbridge,
called Union bridge, near Paxton, and a short
distance below the English village of Horncliff. This
bridge has been of great advantage to Bervv'ickshire in
the introduction of coal and lime; and before September
1840, when a splendid bridge was built at Norham
into Ladykirk parish, the Union bridge was the only
connexion of the two sides of the Tweed between Berwick
and Coldstream. On the estate of I'axton is a
manufactory for bricks and tiles, where large quantities
of the latter are made for drainage. Paxton House,
beautifully seated on the bank of the river, is a spacious
mansion in the Grecian style, after a design by the
architect Adam; it is built of red sandstone, and contains
some very fine apartments, and a picture-gallery. In
the village is a school, for which a house and a dwelling
for the master were built by a late proprietor of the Paxton
estate; and there is also a small library.