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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 See also:

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

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