Whitsome is a small rural village in the
Scottish Borders area of
Scotland
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, on the B6437, near
Duns
Duns may refer to:
* Duns, Scottish Borders, a town in Berwickshire, Scotland
** Duns railway station
** Duns F.C., a football club
** Duns RFC, a rugby football club
** Battle of Duns, an engagement fought in 1372
* Duns Scotus ( 1265/66–1308 ...
,
Fogo,
Ladykirk,
Leitholm
Leitholm ( sco, Leithowm) is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, north-west of Coldstream, in the former county of Berwickshire.
Other places nearby include the Crosshall cross, Duns, Eccles, Ednam, Fogo, Greenlaw, Hume Castle ...
and
Swinton.
Place-name meaning
Whitsome derives from Old English ''hwit-husum'' "at the white houses". This may refer to
white stone buildings, or houses painted
white
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. The name has been recorded as the following over the centuries:
* ''æt hwitum husum'', 984 (literally "at the white houses, -um being
dative plural
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).
* ''Huuithusum'', 1038 (double u was written since "w" could not be pronounced by the author)
* ''Witsum'', 1124 (contracted form)
See also
*
List of places in the Scottish Borders
''Map of places in the Scottish Borders compiled from this list'':See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties.
This list of places in the Scottish Borders includes towns, villages, hamlets, castles, golf courses, historic ...
*
List of places in Scotland
This list of places in Scotland is a complete collection of lists of places in Scotland.
* List of burghs in Scotland
* List of census localities in Scotland
*List of islands of Scotland
** List of Shetland islands
** List of Orkney islands
** L ...
External links
RCAHMS site record for WhitsomeExcavation of cist burial, Leetside Farm, Whitsome
Forestry Commission: Consultation with Edrom, Allanton and Whitsome Community Council
GENUKI: History of WhitsomeBorders Family History Society: WhitsomeGEOGRAPH image: Whitsome Church
Villages in the Scottish Borders
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