Ettleton

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Ettleton churchyard

Ettleton is a village near Castleton, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire.

Ettleton Cemetery, on the slopes of Ettleton Sike, is the burial place of many members of Clan Armstrong.

Other places nearby include Newcastleton

Etymology and 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]

See also

References

  • 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
  1. ^ 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).

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