Hownam

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Hownam
Roxburghshire

Hownam village centre
Location
Grid reference: NT778191
Location: 55°27’56"N, 2°21’7"W
Data
Post town: Kelso
Postcode: TD5
Dialling code: 01573
Local Government
Council: Scottish Borders
Parliamentary
constituency:
Berwickshire,
Roxburgh and Selkirk

Hownam is a small village and parish situated eight miles east of Jedburgh in Roxburghshire, close to the border with Northumberland.

Hownam lies south of Morebattle on the Kale Water.[1] The parish borders Northumberland and has, within its boundaries, the Roman road of Dere Street and the Pennymuir Roman camps.[1] Hownam first appears in the written charters in the 12th century.[1] The origin of the name is uncertain, but may indicate a tribal name, "the Hunas".[1] The village itself is a small group of houses in a row on one side of the road.[1] The village church is at the north end of the village.[1] The church was reshaped in the 1750s and further modernised in the 1840s, and again following a fire in 1907.[2]

Local nurseryman George Taylor was born at Hounam Grange in 1803.[3] He emigrated to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1855, and became known as George "Celery" Taylor because he introduced commercial celery growing to the United States.[3]

References

  1. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Hownam Parish, www.morebattle.bordernet.co.uk, retrieved 8 May 2014
  2. Hownam, www.cheviotchurches.org, retrieved 8 May 2014
  3. Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 George "Celery" Taylor, www.morebattle.bordernet.co.uk, retrieved 8 May 2014

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