Ednam
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  Ednam Location within the Scottish Borders | |
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Ednam is a small village near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
Floors Castle is nearby.
The village was formerly in Roxburghshire. Its name is a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon "Edenham", i.e. the town on Eden Water. In the late 1090s, Edgar, King of Scots, granted Thor Longus land at Ednam, where developed a farming community.[1]
Near the village is a knoll called The Piper's Grave. It is named after a legend that a local piper once went searching for fairies in the hill, and was never seen again.[2]
Notable people
[edit]- Ednam is notable for having been associated with several Scottish poets, Henry Francis Lyte, writer of Abide With Me; William Wright, John Gibson Smith and James Thomson, writer of Rule Britannia.
- J. H. S. Burleigh - Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1960.
- William Purves, banker
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Oram, Richard D. (2025), A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400 - 1400, John Donald, Edinburgh, pp. 259 & 265, ISBN 9780859767194
- ↑ Ash, Russell (1973). Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain. Reader's Digest Association Limited. p. 419. ISBN 9780340165973.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ednam.
- RCAHMS record of Ednam
- Gazetteer for Scotland: Parish of Ednam
- Scottish Borders Council: Adopted Local Plan / Ednam Settlement Profile and Map
- Ednam Primary School, Inspections
- Church of Scotland: Parish of Kelso North and Ednam
- Ednam website
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