Kale Water

Kale Water, just east of Morebattle

The Kale Water is a river twenty miles long in Roxburghshire, which becomes a tributary of the River Teviot. Its feeder burns in the Cheviot Hills are the Long Burn, Hawkwillow Burn and the Grindstone Burn, east of Leithope Forest very close to the north-south watershed which marks the boundary of Northumberland to the south.

The Kale continues northwards by way of Upper Hindhope and Chatto to Hownam, the Hownam Rings and Morebattle Hill.

At Morebattle the river turns to the west and, near Caverton Mill, the Kale receives another burn, the Cessford Burn. It continues alongside the B6401, past Grahamslaw to join the Teviot at Kalemouth and the Kalemouth Suspension Bridge.

Outside links

• Location map: 55°31’59"N, 2°28’1"W
• Scottish Journal of Geology: Quaternary geology of part of the Kale Water catchment, Western Cheviot
• RCAHMS record for Kale Water
• CANMORE (RCAHMS) record of Kalemouth Bridge
• Walk: Kirk Yetholm to Morebattle