The River
The River Tweed is 156km (97 miles) long (some say slightly longer, some say shorter - it depends on exactly where the mouth is judged to be). By world standards it is not a particularly long river. It is the 11th longest in Great Britain and the 4th longest in Scotland, only the Tay, the Spey and the Clyde are said to be longer (only just in the case of the Clyde and depending on where the mouth of the Clyde is judged to be of course).
The River Tweed drains almost the entire Scottish Borders region, and has a catchment area of around 5000km˛ (1900 square miles). It rises at Tweed's Well in the Lowther Hills above Moffat and flows down to the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed passing though many notable Borders towns such as Peebles, Selkirk, Melrose, Kelso, Coldstream & Berwick. It passes through varied countryside on it's journey from the high moors and steep-sided valleys of Tweeddale to the wide rolling plains of the Merse.
For the first 120km (75 miles) or so the river is entirely Scottish (both banks in Scotland), then for 30km (18 miles) it forms the border between England and Scotland. For the last 8km (5 miles) to the sea, both banks lie in England, entirely as a consequence of Berwick being finally taken for England in 1482.
This journey will start at the mouth of the river and journey upstream. It won't cover every inch of the river and may not cover every single item of note along it - if there is somewhere you'd like to see covered that I've missed or that I've not got to please let me know.
The River Tweed drains almost the entire Scottish Borders region, and has a catchment area of around 5000km˛ (1900 square miles). It rises at Tweed's Well in the Lowther Hills above Moffat and flows down to the North Sea at Berwick-upon-Tweed passing though many notable Borders towns such as Peebles, Selkirk, Melrose, Kelso, Coldstream & Berwick. It passes through varied countryside on it's journey from the high moors and steep-sided valleys of Tweeddale to the wide rolling plains of the Merse.
For the first 120km (75 miles) or so the river is entirely Scottish (both banks in Scotland), then for 30km (18 miles) it forms the border between England and Scotland. For the last 8km (5 miles) to the sea, both banks lie in England, entirely as a consequence of Berwick being finally taken for England in 1482.
This journey will start at the mouth of the river and journey upstream. It won't cover every inch of the river and may not cover every single item of note along it - if there is somewhere you'd like to see covered that I've missed or that I've not got to please let me know.
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