Edrom is a parish and small village in the pre-1975 ancient county of Berwickshire, now an administrative area of the

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region of Scotland. The rural parish of Edrom is in east central Berwickshire being bounded on the north by the parishes of Bunkle and

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and

Chirnside Chirnside is a hillside village in Berwickshire, Scotland, west of Berwick-upon-Tweed and east of Duns. Church The parish church at Chirnside dates from the 12th century. It was substantially rebuilt in 1878 and extensively restored and a ...

, on the east by the Parishes of Chirnside, Hutton and

Whitsome Whitsome is a small rural village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the B6437, near Duns, Fogo, Ladykirk, Leitholm and Swinton. Place-name meaning Whitsome derives from Old English ''hwit-husum'' "at the white houses". This may r ...

and Hilton, on the south by the parishes of

and Hilton, Swinton and Fogo and on the west by the parishes of Langton and

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. It includes the nearby village of Allanton.

Locality

Edrom lies three miles north-east of

, and close to the Whiteadder Water. Nearby are

Allanbank Allanbank is a village near Allanton, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the historic county of Berwickshire. Allanbank Chapel was dedicated to St. Mary and was located in a small field named Chapel Haugh. Nearby places include Blac ...

, Allanton, the Blackadder Water, Blanerne Castle,

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, Foulden,

Gavinton Gavinton is a small settlement in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, south-west of Duns, Scottish Borders, Duns, the former county town of Berwickshire. The hamlet sits on a minor road off the A6105 Duns to Greenlaw road at . History Gavinto ...

, Hutton,

Kimmerghame House Kimmerghame House is a 19th-century mansion in the Scottish Borders, located south-east of Duns by the Blackadder Water. It is the seat of the Swintons of Kimmerghame, a branch of the Lowland Clan Swinton. The house was designed in the Scottis ...

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, Wedderburn Castle, and the former

Kelloe House Kelloe House was a country house in the former Berwickshire, in the Parish of Edrom, in the Scottish Borders. The house has been demolished. Kelloe Mains and Kelloe Bridge remain. See also *George Buchan of Kelloe *Kelloe in County Durham *Allanba ...

Village

The village contains several notable buildings, including the Manse, 1881, and the former school, early 19th century. The schoolroom, now the Village Hall, is very likely the Sewing School erected in 1866. Edrom Newton Farm, with a neo-Jacobean steading, is a late 18th or early 19th century farm house built by Richard Miller of Manderston; it is notable for its pavilions with Venetian windows. Edrom Farm Cottages are a stylish group of neo-Jacobean cottages, 1876, just to the east of the steading. Two bridges, Kelloe Bridge and Todheugh Bridge, cross the Blackadder Water and the Whiteadder Water respectively.

Parish Church

A parish church was granted to Durham Cathedral in the early 12th century. The Logan Aisle, to the west of the church, contains what is described as the finest piece of Romanesque architectural sculpture in Scotland - the reset doorway from the main church. This dates from the 12th century, and is now somewhat worn.

Edrom House

Thought to date from circa 1740, and a somewhat dated design for that time, Edrom House is a simple classical rectangular piend-roofed house. A design introduced by Sir William Bruce in the 17th century. Edrom House was the home of the International Cello Centre, a residential school for musicians of varying ages and backgrounds run by John Gwilt, Jane and Christopher Cowan, where Steven Isserlis and

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trained in the 1970s. The school is no longer based at Edrom and is now called The Edrom Casals Centre.

Berwickshire Railway

Edrom had a railway station on the North British Railway's Berwickshire Railway (opened 1863). The railway line ran from

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to Earlston, joining the

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to the Waverley Line. A five span rounded arch railway bridge was built over the Whiteadder Water, in the hamlet of

, in 1863 to carry the railway. Edrom Railway Station was closed to passenger traffic 10 September 1951. Freight continued until 19 July 1965. The station had a single platform. The station building, platform and goods shed remain intact.

Body Snatching

Edrom was notable as the site of Body snatching which resulted in a riot in Duns.

Notable people

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(1775–1856) Church of Scotland elder. Secretary to the Governor of

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. *

Alexander Christison Alexander Christison FRSE (1751–1820) was a Scottish educator and mathematician during the Scottish Enlightenment. Life He was born in 1753, at Redpath House, Longformacus, Berwickshire. He was the eldest of seven children to a tenant shee ...

(1751–1820) began his career as schoolmaster of Edrom. *The botanist and plant hunter Robert Fortune (1812–1880) was born in Edrom.

References

Bibliography

* ''Borders and Berwick'' by Charles Alexander Strang, The Rutland Press, 1994, * ''The Buildings of Scotland - Borders'', by Kitty Cruft, John Dunbar and Richard Fawcett, Yale University Press, 2006, * Knight Frank (2002) Edrom House, Duns, Berwickshire: Sale particulars, Lauder. Held at RCAHMS * National Library of Scotland, ''Memorials of a Border Family'', history of the Logan Home family

External links

RCAHMS record for Edrom ParishRCAHMS record for Edrom Parish Church, ManseRCAHMS record for Edrom HouseFORESTRY COMMISSION: Response to Consultation on Forestry Provision in the Scottish Climate Change Bill, from Edrom, Allanton and Whitsome Community CouncilGEOGRAPH image of Edrom Norman Arch
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