What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Heriot, Heriot Kirk, Kirkyard as Churchyard (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Heriot Kirk and its kirkyard are associated with Saint Herbert (or Heribert), a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon monk and missionary believed to have been active in southern Scotland. The site is linked to early Christian traditions and may have been a place of pilgrimage, though specific cures or folklore connected to the location are not well documented.
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