Yetholm

Yetholm Bridge, connecting Kirk and Town Yetholm

Yetholm is a parish in the east of Roxburghshire, adjacent to the border with Northumberland. It contains the villages of Kirk Yetholm and Town Yetholm. It is situated eight miles from Kelso and over nine miles from Coldstream. The population of the parish in 2001 was 606.

To the east of the parish lies Yetholm Common, a 200-acre area of common right on the county border. John Marius Wilson (1859) in The land of Scott; or, Abbotsford, The Country of the Tweed and its Tributaries, and St Mary's Loch describes:

A wild moor, called Yetholm Common, lying to the east, and comprising an area of several hundred acres, is claimed by the town's-people as an ultranational tract, neither in Scotland nor England, and used by them for the cutting turf and grazing cattle.

Early-19th-century maps showed parts of the common as debatable land, but the 1859 Ordnance Survey map showed the entire area as part of Roxburghshire.

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• Location map: 55°32’50"N, 2°16’25"W