Ednam
Village in Scottish Borders
title: "Ednam" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-the-scottish-borders", "parishes-in-roxburghshire"] description: "Village in Scottish Borders" topic_path: "general/villages-in-the-scottish-borders" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ednam" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Village in Scottish Borders ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox UK place"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| country | Scotland |
| official_name | Ednam |
| coordinates | |
| map_type | Scotland |
| unitary_scotland | Scottish Borders |
| civil_parish | Ednam |
| static_image_name | Ednam Parish Church.jpg |
| static_image_caption | Parish church |
| :: |
| country = Scotland | official_name = Ednam | gaelic_name = | population = | population_ref = | os_grid_reference = | coordinates = | map_type = Scotland | unitary_scotland = Scottish Borders | civil_parish = Ednam | lieutenancy_scotland = | constituency_westminster = | constituency_scottish_parliament = | post_town = | postcode_district = | postcode_area = | dial_code = | static_image_name = Ednam Parish Church.jpg | static_image_caption = Parish church 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.
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.
Notable 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
References
References
- Ash, Russell. (1973). "Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain". Reader's Digest Association Limited.
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