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YETHOLM

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 918 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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YETHOLM  , a

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village of
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Roxburghshire,
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Scotland . Pop . (1901) 571 . It is situated on Bowmont
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Water, 71 M . S.E. of
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Kelso, and 5 M . S.S.W. of Mindrum in
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Northumberland, the nearest railway station . It is divided into two quarters,
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Kirk Yetholm on the right and
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Town Yetholm on the
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left of the stream . The name is said to be the O.E. yet, "
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gate," and holm (here the same as
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ham), ``
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hamlet," meaning " the hamlet at the gate " of Scotland, the border being only 12 m. distant . Since about the
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middle of the 17th
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century the
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district has been the
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head-quarters of a tribe of
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gipsies .

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