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Parish of Norham

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River Tweed River Tweed Map of Scotland On Sheets The popular and the really remotest
Map of Berwickshire 3.10, 3.11, 3.14, 5.8, source of the Tweed is a paltry
Map of Northumberland 5.12, 5.16, 6.1, 6.2, fountain called Tweeds-well a
6.5, 6.9, 9.3, 9.3, 9.4, little above the farm house of
Not navigable above 9.7 & Tweedshaws and at the foot of
Berwick Bridge. See 9.11 a hill named Tweed’s Cross, on
remark 11 on plan 6/2 the south-western boundary of
Tweedsmuir in Peebleshire.
From its remote source to the sea at Berwick upon Tweed
it performs irrespectively of windings, a run of about 100 miles &
drains 1870 square miles.
For a distance of 13 miles & 50 chains, the Tweed separates
Norham parish in Northumberland from the Parishes
of Coldstream, Ladykirk & Hutton in Berwickshire.
William Beatty Civil Assistant

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