Hownam

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Hownam or Hounam^[1] is a small village and parish situated 8 miles east of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, near the Anglo-Scottish border, in the former Roxburghshire.

Hownam lies south of Morebattle on the Kale Water.^[2] The parish borders England and has, within its boundaries, the Roman road of Dere Street and the Pennymuir Roman camps.^[2] Hownam first appears in the written charters in the 12th century.^[2] The origin of the name is uncertain, but may indicate a tribal name, "the Hunas".^[2] The village itself is a small group of houses in a row on one side of the road.^[2] The village church is at the north end of the village.^[2] The church was reshaped in the 1750s and further modernised in the 1840s, and again following a fire in 1907.^[3]

Local nurseryman George Taylor was born at Hounam Grange in 1803.^[4] He emigrated to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1855, and became known as George "Celery" Taylor because he introduced commercial celery growing to the United States.^[4]

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