Scotland
The custom of “riding the marches” existed at Lanark, and took place annually on the day after Whitsun Fair, by the magistrates and burgesses, known by the name of the Langemark or Landsmark Day, from the Saxon langemark.60—Sinclair’s Stat. Acc. of Scotland, 1795, vol. xv. p. 45.
Notes
60 See Riding the Marches, p. 307.