A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
TWEED (The), a river chiefly of Scotland, but partly of England. It belongs entirely to Scotland till within 16 miles of the sea; it first touches England in the neighbourhood of Carham; it thence traces the boundary between England and Scotland, north-eastward, past Wark, Cornhill, Norham, and Horncliffe, to a point 1¾ mile NNE of Horncliffe; and it then runs 4 miles eastward, across a wing of England, to the sea between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Spittal. It has a total course of about 100 miles; it drains a basin of about 1,870 square miles; it receives many tributaries within Scotland, but only one of any note, the Till, within England; and it is distinguished both for the beauty of its banks and for the richness of its fishings.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Place names: | THE TWEED | TWEED | TWEED THE |
| Place: | Tweed |
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