Whitsome
Encyclopedia
Whitsome is a small rural village
in the Scottish Borders
area of Scotland
, on the B6437, near Duns
, Fogo
, Leitholm
, Ladykirk and Swinton
.
. The name has been recorded as the following over the centuries:
Village
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in the Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...
area of Scotland
Scotland
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, on the B6437, near Duns
Duns
Duns is the county town of the historic county of Berwickshire, within the Scottish Borders.-Early history:Duns law, the original site of the town of Duns, has the remains of an Iron Age hillfort at its summit...
, Fogo
Fogo
Fogo may refer to:* Fogo, Cape Verde** Mount Fogo* Fogo, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada** Fogo Aerodrome* Fogo, Scottish Borders, a village in Berwickshire, Scotland** Fogo Priory, a religious house of the above settlement...
, Leitholm
Leitholm
Leitholm 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, Polwarth, Westruther....
, Ladykirk and Swinton
Swinton, Scottish Borders
Swinton is a small village in the Scottish Borders. It is in the former county of Berwickshire, around south-east of Duns, and north-west of the Anglo-Scottish border.-History:...
.
Place-name meaning
Whitsome derives from Old English hwit-husum "at the white houses". This may refer to white stone buildings, or houses painted whiteWhite
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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 pluralPluralIn linguistics, plurality or [a] plural is a concept of quantity representing a value of more-than-one. Typically applied to nouns, a plural word or marker is used to distinguish a value other than the default quantity of a noun, which is typically one...
). - Huuithusum, 1038 (double u was written since "w" could not be pronounced by the author)
- Witsum, 1124 (contracted form)
External links
- RCAHMS site record for Whitsome
- Gazetteer for Scotland: Parish of Whitsome
- Excavation of cist burial, Leetside Farm, Whitsome
- http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/cc474.pdf/$FILE/cc474.pdf Forestry Commission: Consultation with Edrom, Allanton and Whitsome Community Council
- GENUKI: History of Whitsome
- Borders Family History Society: Whitsome