
Ednam is a small village near
Kelso in the
Scottish Borders
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area of
Scotland
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.
Places nearby include
Stichill,
Sprouston,
Nenthorn,
Eccles,
Gordon,
Greenlaw as well as
Floors Castle
Floors Castle, in Roxburghshire, south-east Scotland, is the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe. Despite its name it is an estate house rather than a fortress. It was built in the 1720s by the architect William Adam for John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxbur ...
.
The village was formerly in
Roxburghshire
Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh () is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the northwest, and Berwickshire to the north. T ...
. Its name is a corruption of the
Anglo-Saxon
The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...
"Edenham", i.e. the town on
Eden Water.
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.
Notable people
*Ednam is notable for having been associated with several Scottish poets,
Henry Francis Lyte, writer of ''
Abide With Me
"Abide with Me" is a Christian hymn by Scottish Anglican cleric Henry Francis Lyte (1793–1847). A prayer for God to stay with the speaker throughout life and in death, it was written by Lyte in 1847 as he was dying from tuberculosis. It is m ...
'';
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
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in 1960.
*
William Purves, banker
See also
*
Ednam Church
*
List of places in the Scottish Borders
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*
List of places in Scotland
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*List of burghs in Scotland
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References
External links
RCAHMS record of Ednam
*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110210060018/http://www.hmie.gov.uk/ViewEstablishment.aspx?type=2&id=8643 Ednam Primary School, InspectionsChurch of Scotland: Parish of Kelso North and EdnamEdnam website
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Villages in the Scottish Borders
Parishes in Roxburghshire