Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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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 ...'
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Ecclefechan
Head name
Ecclefechan
Place
Ecclefechan, former parish, Hoddom
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Ecclesfechan 1791, OSA
Historic formEcclesfechan Head nameEcclefechan PlaceEcclefechan, former parish, Hoddom Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceOSA, iii, 347 Date of citation1791 x 1799 Feature named in sourceparish |
Source code
OSA
Source title
Old Statistical Account