OS1/29/28/255

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  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Roxburghshire OS Name Books, 1858-1860
  4. Roxburghshire volume 28
  5. OS1/29/28/255
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
RIVER TWEED River Tweed The Map of Scotland
The Map of Roxburghshire
The Map of SelKirKshire		 007; 008 The popular, and the really remotest source of the Tweed, is a paltry fountain Called Tweed's-well, a little above the farm house of Tweedshaws, and at the foot of a hill named Tweed's Cross, on the South-western boundary of the parish of Tweedsmuir, Peebles-shire.
From its remotest source to the sea at Berwick upon Tweed, it performs, irrespectively its windings a run of about 100 miles, about one third of which is in Peebles-shire, and about another third through or in contact with Roxburghshire -
The Tweed in its Course drains 1870 square miles

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Parish of Melrose -- W Beatty c/a [Civilian Assistant]

  Transcribers who have contributed to this page.

Moira L- Moderator, John Dunlop

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Melrose Parish, Roxburghshire County

  Linked mapsheets.

Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Roxburghshire, Sheet Viii Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Roxburghshire, Sheet Viii
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Roxburghshire, Sheet Vii Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Roxburghshire, Sheet Vii
Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Viii Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Selkirkshire, Sheet Viii