Kirk Yetholm

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Kirk Yetholm from the Mindrum Road
Kirk Yetholm from the Mindrum Road

Kirk Yetholm is a village in the Scottish Borders, eight miles (13 km) southeast of Kelso and about half a mile west of the border itself.

The Border public house in the village is the official end of the Pennine Way. Kirk Yetholm has for two centuries been the head-quarters of the Romani people (Gypsies) in Scotland. A memorial stone can be found on the village green.[1]

Its sister town is Town Yetholm which lies just across the Bowmont Water Valley.

[edit] Place-name meanings

Yetholm means either:

  • the goats' island from Old English gat 'goat' and Old Norse holmr (island, holme)
  • village with a gate - from Old English geat-ham 'gate village'

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Gypsy Memorial, Kirk Yetholm, Scotland

Coordinates: 55°33′N, 2°16′W


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