Dear Roy, Here are the extra bits I put together anyway!:-)) St Boswells/LESSUDDEN. Previously thought to mean & to have originally been called Lis-Aidan, meaning the residence of Aidan, or perhaps Lessedwin - as it is in the old chartularies - that is, the manor-place of Edwin." However as that may be, is but later not earlier as above, I felt maybe coincidental! More to it posibly than that, and set out to examine the name for much earlier foundations. Tho Lessudden is the name the meaning could be contained in a compound word, LES, SUD, & DEN. Les gives an Enclosure, Garden or Fort, Les Breton & Cornish; Lios or Lis (Gadhelic); Lesse (Sclav), wood or thicket. Sud gives South, Norsemen applied the term sudereys (Southern Islands) to all the British Islands under their control, S' of Orkney & N of the Island of Mann, gave Sutherland & etc Den gives a Wooded Valley. Den & Dean are Saxon. Dion is Celtic ( protection shelter). The village lies close but to the SOUTH of the River Tweed, flowing between bold, beautiful, WELL-WOODED BANKS, and forms the boundary with Berwickshire. It also ties in with the other bits I speculated about and sent you earlier today. In 631 AD King Oswald of Northumbria invited Aidan of Iona (Saint to be) to set up a monastery at Lindisfarne with a daughter-house at Mailros, now Old Melrose. The first prior was Boisel, after whom the village of St Boswell is named. That doesn doesn't nullify the other Lessudden and to a degree partly encourages speculation as to why the other name was kept and its none Norman or Latin structure too if it had been corrupted it would appear to have gone backwards! Coincidental and oddly in French, 'Bois', gives Cross & Woodland and forms of 'el', as common village name endings . Could Horse be a version of Horst or Harts? It has the statue of Wallace, whether there were a succession of forts & Battles there I dont know nor if my insight has any value or merely ingenious? I should be able to unearth the old bits and copy them to you in due course. Regards, Mikey. Spectemur Agendo.