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Ettleton is a village near Castleton, in the
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area of
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, in the former
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Etymology and history

Ettleton Parish was once also known as, or contained, Dinwiddie. The first element of this name appears to be the
Cumbric Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the ''Hen Ogledd'' or "Old North", in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. It was closely related to Old Welsh and the ot ...
word ''din'', meaning 'fort'.Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html). Ettleton Cemetery, on the slopes of Ettleton Sike, is the burial place of many members of
Clan Armstrong Clan Armstrong is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Borders. History Origins of the clan Traditional origins According to the legend and tradition, the first of the name Armstrong was Siward Beorn (''sword warrior''), who was also known as Siwar ...
. Other places nearby include
Newcastleton Newcastleton, also called Copshaw Holm, is a village in Liddesdale, the Scottish Borders, a few miles from the border with England, on the Liddel Water. It is within the Counties of Scotland, county of Roxburghshire. It is the site of Hermitag ...
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See also

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List of places in Scotland This list of places in Scotland is a complete collection of lists of places in Scotland. *List of burghs in Scotland *List of census localities in Scotland *List of islands of Scotland **List of Shetland islands **List of Orkney islands **List o ...


References

* Brooke, C J (2000), ''Safe sanctuaries: security and defence in Anglo-Scottish border churches 1290-1690'', Edinburgh, pages 125, 201, 236–237, 362, held at RCAHMS * Roy, W (1747–55) ''Military Survey of Scotland'' * Elliot, G.A., ''Fugitives' graves in Ettleton and Castleton Churchyards, and the Armstrong Cross'', in 'Berwickshire Naturalists' Club History for 1965', XXXVII, pt.1. (1966) pp54–7


External links


CANMORE/RCAHMS record of Ettleton CemeteryCANMORE/RCAHMS record of Ettleton Sike; Kirk Hill; SideRCAHMS record of EttletonScottish Borders Council: Around NewcastletonGeograph image: Ettleton Cemetery near to Newcastleton
Villages in the Scottish Borders {{Borders-geo-stub