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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
EDEN WATER Eden Water County Map
New Statistical Account of Berwickshire
Fullerton's Gazetteer.
027 ; 031 A small river in the district of the Merse.
It rises in the parish of Legerwood at Boonhill; and flows first eastwards, and then Southwards, dividing the parish of Earlston from the parishes of Hume & Nenthorn. It then suddenly debouches to the East, still dividing Nenthorn from Smailholm, enters the parish of Nenthorn at Nenthorn Bridge, flows through the parish of Nenthorn & again becomes the boundary between Nenthorn & Stichill, it then enters Ednam parish intersecting in its Course the whole of that parish, & falls into the Tweed 3 1/2 miles below Kelso. Its whole Course is about 17 or 18 miles. The lower part of its Course is very beautiful, being through rich & finely wooded pastoral scenery.

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Nenthorn Parish -- W Beatty

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