Henwood, an ancient forest in Oxnam parish, Roxburghshire, around Oxnam Water, 5 miles SE of Jedburgh. It abounds in natural fastnesses; presented for ages such depths and intricacies of wooded ravine as rendered it almost impervious; was often used, in the times of the Border raids and fends, as a place of rendezvous or of refuge; and gave occasion for the war-cry ' A Henwoody! ' to raise and lead a Border onset.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)