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Ayton, Summerhill (Burgher) Church began with a petition for sermon to the Burgher Presbytery of Edinburgh in 1777. A new church was erected and a minister ordained in 1783. Much of the congregation later came from the village of Burnmouth, which by the 1880s was developing and wishing to establish an independent charge. This led to a dispute between Ayton and the United Presbyterian presbytery of Duns and for a time the possibility of Ayton joining the Free Church was under consideration. Eventually it united with its Antiburgher counterpart, Ayton Springbank United Presbyterian in 1893 as Ayton. Ayton passed successively to the United Free Church and the Church of Scotland, but was almost immediately reduced in status in 1930 and united with Ayton Old as Ayton in 1934. The Church of Scotland charge was in the presbytery of Duns and the synod of Merse and Teviotdale. |