Ettleton
Ettleton is a village near Castleton, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire.
Etymology and history
[edit]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] Ettleton Cemetery, on the slopes of Ettleton Sike, is the burial place of many members of Clan Armstrong. Other places nearby include Newcastleton.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 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
- ^ 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).
External links
[edit]- CANMORE/RCAHMS record of Ettleton Cemetery
- CANMORE/RCAHMS record of Ettleton Sike; Kirk Hill; Side
- RCAHMS record of Ettleton
- The Armstrong Clan Society
- Scottish Borders Council: Around Newcastleton[permanent dead link]
- Geograph image: Ettleton Cemetery near to Newcastleton
55°10′06″N 2°49′47″W / 55.16828°N 2.82976°W
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