Davidson's dogs descended from earlier terrier-owning families, including the Allans of Holystone, Northumberland. The Holystone Burn joins the Coquet at Holystone. They meet again sometime in Manhattan with the gang of Jacuzzi Splot and Nice Holystone. There, they befriend gangsters Jacuzzi Splot and Nice Holystone and the immortal boy Czeslaw Meyer. There is one school located within the village, Holystone Primary School. Holystone is a village in North Tyneside. The family home was Holystone Grange, Sharperton, near Morpeth, Northumberland. Holystone is a small village in Northumberland, England. Holystone is in the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Holystone is a sandstone used for scrubbing and whitening the wooden decks of ships. In the early 12th century Holystone became the home of a priory of Augustinian Canonesses.