Biggar Water
Biggar Water is a river in Lanarkshire and Peeblesshire, in the Southern Uplands. It becomes ultimately a tributary of the River Tweed.
Although the burn close to its source is just a mile and a half from the River Clyde, with no high ground between them, this little, low gap forms part of the east-west watershed of Great Britain and the Biggar Water flows not to the Clyde but in the opposite direction, to the Tweed and thence the east coast.
The river rises, as Biggar Burn, in the north-east of the parish of Biggar in Lanarkshire and flows for about 6¾ miles generally southerly toward the town of Biggar, about a mile from the Clyde, which it shows no inclination to join, and at Biggar the burn becomes Biggar Water. The river then flows eastwards, meeting the Peeblesshire border almost as soon as it leaves Biggar and forming the county border for just over a mile.
The river passes through Broughton, then about five miles east of Biggar town, the river meets the Tweed, three-quarters of a mile north-east of Drumelzier.[1]
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- Location map: 55°37’20"N, 3°30’57"W
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References
- ↑ Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, by Francis Groome, 2nd edition 1896; article on Skirling