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. In the late 1090s, Edgar, King of Scots, granted Thor Longus land at Ednam, where developed a farming community.

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

See also

• Ednam Church

• List of places in the Scottish Borders

• List of places in Scotland

References

External links

• RCAHMS record of Ednam

• Gazetteer for Scotland: Parish of Ednam

• Scottish Borders Council: Adopted Local Plan / Ednam Settlement Profile and Map

• Ednam Primary School, Inspections

• Church of Scotland: Parish of Kelso North and Ednam

• Ednam website