Borthwick Water
The Borthwick Water is a river in Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire, and a tributary of the River Teviot.
The Aithouse Burn, the Howpasley Burn, and the Northhope Burn (amongst others) are some of the feeder burns for what becomes the Borthwick Water at Craik, in the heart of the Craik Forest. The Water then forms the border between the counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk for the most part until Roberton, although the border is quite serpentine in this area and in parts it flows entirely in one county of the other. It joins the Teviot at Borthaugh and Martinshouse, at the end of the B711, and less than two miles from the centre of Hawick.
Places of interest nearby are the Alemoor Loch reservoir and Borthaugh Hill, as well as the villages of Borthwickshiels, Branxholme, Broadhaugh, and Buccleuch.
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- Map of confluence with Teviot: 55°24’40"N, 2°49’34"W
- RCAHMS record for Borthwick Wa'as, St. Mary's Chapel and Graveyard
- GEOGRAPH: The Borthwick Water
- SCRAN image: The Duke of Buccleuch's Hunt and Borthwick Water Foxhounds Joint Meet
Sources
- Borthwick Water: two centuries of life in the parish of Roberton by Kathleen W. Stewart, published 1991
- Reminiscences of Borthwick Water sixty years ago by George Scott, 1909 transactions