Bassendean, Scottish Borders

It is by the Eden Water in the former Berwickshire, immediately south of the hamlet of Houndslow.

The medieval village of Bassendean declined in the 17th century, and only a ruined church now remains of the settlement.

Disused after the Scottish Reformation, it was rebuilt in 1647, but was replaced only two years later by a new church at Westruther.

[3] The house and the ruins of the church are both protected as Category B listed buildings.

[4][5] During the 1830s, the Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, Peter Broun, who had ancestral ties to Berwickshire, gave the name Bassendean to his homestead near Perth, Western Australia.