Ettleton
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| Ettleton | |
| Roxburghshire | |
|---|---|
 Ettleton churchyard | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 55°10’6"N, 2°49’47"W |
| Data | |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Scottish Borders |
Ettleton is a village near Castleton, in Roxburghshire.
Ettleton Cemetery, on the slopes of Ettleton Sike, is the burial place of many members of the Armstrong family, notorious border reivers in their time.
Other places nearby include Newcastleton
History
Ettleton Parish was once also known as, or contained, Dinwiddie. The first element of this name appears to be the Cumbric word din, meaning 'fort'.[1]
Outside links
- CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Ettleton Cemetery
- CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Ettleton Sike; Kirk Hill; Side
- The War Graves Project: Ettleton Old Churchyard, nr Newcastleton
- The Armstrong Clan Society
- Scottish Borders Council: Around Newcastleton
References
- ↑ 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).
- 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