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seeded with fine plantations, but the Southern portion is very hilly and in some places the rocks crop for such an extent that the ground is almost barren, this district is pastoral, and is divided into sheep farms.
The name of this parish is a Gaelic compound, consisting of Cul, the back part or recess, and Tir, the land or country. The village of Culter accordingly viewed from any commanding station in the adjacent valley, appears to occupy the Back part or Recess of the District. - In 1794, a decreet was given by the Lords of Council and Session suppressing the parish of Kilbucho, and annexing part of the same to that of Culter. At Wolf Clyde a curiousity may sometimes be seen, viz the Clyde running into the Tweed. The Vale of Biggar Water, which here stretches between these two rivers is but slightly elevated above the bed of the Clyde. During a flood part of the latter river sometimes finds its way into Biggar Water, and is thereby carried into the Tweed. - The sheep with which our hills are pastured are of the Short or Black faced kind. No other kind has ever been tried, as the grounds are reckoned too hard and bare for rearing a finer species' [New Statistical Account]
By a sentence of the Lords Commissioners of Tiends, in the year of 1794, a considerable part of the parish of Kilbucho in Tweeddale was annexed to Culter, which it borders on the north east. The parish is a long track of land, partly level and fruitful holms, partly upland pastures, lying on the banks of Culter Water, which flowing from the South-west to the north east, falls into the Clyde. That river bounds the district on the west, its eastern limits are the Culter Fells which rise somewhat abruptly from the valley to a height, in certain points, of 2330 feet above the sea [ Origines Parochiales Scotiae]