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    • Kirk Yetholm & Town Yetholm: Scotland's Answer to the Cotswolds
      • The villages of Yetholm are tucked away from the main roads that lead into Scotland, framed by the Cheviot Hills to the east. They are known for their traditional thatched cottages and houses, and for once being home to the Romani people, locally known as the Yetholm Gypsies.
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  2. Nov 26, 2022 · Visit the Yetholm villages for: A quiet getaway, nature, local pubs, thatched cottages, hillwalking, close to the Scotland/England border. History of the Yetholm Gypsies.

  3. These days, Yetholm is best known for as a centre for walkers. The Pennine Way Long Distance Footpath is generally thought of as an English path: and all but the most northerly couple of miles of it are in England.

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  4. Yetholm is a village straddling the Bowmont River on the edge of the Cheviot Hills, close to the English Border. The picturesque settlement of Yeltholm actually consists of two small villages - Town Yetholm and Kirk Yetholm. Yetholm is famed for being the home to the kings and queens of the Scottish gypsies from the 16th century.

  5. About Yetholm. The area of Yetholm actually consists of two small villages - Kirk Yetholm and Town Yetholmm, sitting only a mile from the border with England. The two twin villages lie either side of the valley of the Bowmont Water. Most of the valley of the Bowmont Water lies in England.

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  6. In the 1540s, Yetholm kirk may have suffered badly during the ‘Rough Wooing’ when English troops wrecked vengeance on the Scots by burning villages, churches and abbeys throughout the Borders. Yetholm is named with other settlements in the Bowmont valley as villages put to the torch.

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  7. Yetholme was once a popular tourist site, renowned for its “invigorating climate” with many escaping the cities for the clean high country air. A walk along the old coach road may be just the tonic you need.

  8. If you are in the area, then please feel free to visit our Heritage Centre. Entry is free. The centre is normally open every day, between April and September, from 10.00am to 4.30pm. It will reopen to visitors on 1st April 2024.