Ednam
Village in Scottish Borders
Ednam is a small village near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
Floors Castle is nearby.
The village was formerly in Roxburghshire. Its name is a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon "Edenham", i.e. the town on Eden Water. In the late 1090s, Edgar, King of Scots, granted Thor Longus land at Ednam, where developed a farming community.
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.
01Notable people
- Ednam is notable for having been associated with several Scottish poets, Henry Francis Lyte, writer of Abide With Me; 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 in 1960.
- William Purves, banker
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- Ednam Parish Church.jpg by Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0
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