Tweedsmuir

Tweedsmuir Scottish Gaelic Sliabh Thuaidh
Tweedsmuir Parish Church
Coordinates	55 ° 30 ′  N , 3 ° 26 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 30 ′  N , 3 ° 26 ′  W
Tweedsmuir
administration
Post town	BIGGAR
ZIP code section	ML12
prefix	01899
Part of the country	Scotland
Council area	Scottish Borders
British Parliament	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Scottish Parliament	Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale

Tweedsmuir ( Scottish Gaelic Sliabh Thuaidh ) is a village in the Scottish Council Area Scottish Borders or the traditional county of Peeblesshire . It is located in the sparsely populated west of the region around 18 km southwest of Peebles and 26 km southeast of Lanark in the Tweed Valley . At the eastern edge the Talla Water flows into the Tweed. The Talla Water is dammed two kilometers south of the village to the Talla Reservoir .

Talla Reservoir

history

At Tweedsmuir is the lost Oliver Castle , which was first mentioned around 1200. To the southeast of Tweedsmuir are Cairns and Menhirs . Of these, the Giant's Stone is the largest with a height of around 1.6 m.

In Tweedsmuir is the Crook Inn , which is considered the oldest licensed pub in Scotland.

traffic

The A701 ( Edinburgh - Dumfries ) is the main thoroughfare of Tweedsmuir and connects the town directly to the main road network.

A 701 and railway line

literature

• E. Jones: Menzion Farm, Tweedsmuir (Tweedsmuir parish), watching brief , In: Discovery Excav Scot, 2003 p. 117

Web links

Commons : Tweedsmuir  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
2. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
3. ↑ Entry on Oliver Castle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
4. ↑ Entry on Tweedsmuir Cairn  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
5. ↑ Entry on Giant's Stone  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)