Yetholm,

Yetholm, a Border village of Roxburghshire, at the foot of the Cheviots, $7\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles SE. of Kelso. Bowmont Water divides it into Town-Yetholm and Kirk-Yetholm, the latter long the headquarters of the Scottish Gypsies, who seem to have settled here as early at least as the 17th century, and whose last 'queen,' Esther Faa Blythe (1797-1883), was visited here by Borrow and C. G. Leland. Pop. (1841) 944; (1891) 590. See works by Dr W. Baird (1862), Lucas (1882), and Brockie (1884).