Ecclefechan, former parish, Hoddom

Grid reference

NY 191 744 (assumed location)

Six-figure easting & northing

319100 574400

Latitude

55.05742195002565

Longitude

-3.266651596973192

County

Dumfriesshire

Nearby places

Ecclefechan, ~eccles. Hoddom (0.09 miles)

Ecclefechan, settlement, Hoddom (0.09 miles)

Kirkconnel Hall, settlement, Hoddom (0.5 miles)

Pennersaughs, former parish, Middlebie (0.99 miles)

Luce, former parish, Hoddom (1.33 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (non-extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Relationships with other parishes

Within Hoddom, parish

Relationships with other places

Contains Ecclefechan, ~eccles. Hoddom

Contains Ecclefechan, settlement, Hoddom

Parish details

Ecclefechan, united iwth Luce and Hoddom, with Word and Sacrament to be celebrated at Hoddom (RPS 1609/4/35), now part of Hoddom HOD.

Parish TLA

EFX

Medieval diocese

Glasgow

Parish notes

A parsonage in Bagimond, the church remained unappropriated in the 16th c, then lying within the patronage of Holmains (SHS Misc. v, 99; GRH Supp. Chrs., 5 March 1573/4). Cowan 1967, 58. Hoddom and Ecclefechan were united in 1609 (APS iv, p.441): '... The kirkis of hoddome egilschame and Luss the place of the kirk to be at hoddome neir the towne thairof ...'