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The River Teviot and Roxburgh

Roxburgh Roxburgh is in Roxburghshire, on the narrow tongue of land between the Rivers Teviot and Tweed, which meet at Kelso. The name belongs both to a destroyed town at the meeting of the rivers and to a small village a little upstream. Roxburgh was a royal burgh, an important trading burgh in High Middle Ages and as such it gave its name to the shire in which it stands. In the Middle Ages Roxburgh had at least as much importance as Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth, or Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the royal residence of King David I. Its strategic importance though was too great and the constant fratricidal wars of the Middle Ages raged through Roxburgh until it was destroyed in 1460. The modern village stands a little upstream. (Read more)