Polmood

Polmood
Peeblesshire
Polmood House
Location
Grid reference:	NT112270
Location:	55°31’60"N, 3°24’-0"W
Data
Post town:	Biggar
Postcode:	ML12
Local Government
Council:	Scottish Borders

Polmood is a hamlet near Tweedsmuir in Peeblesshire, in the valley of the River Tweed.

Polmood was for many centuries the centre of the Hunter family in the lowlands and the earliest record was a charter dated 1057 to Norman Hunter of Polmood. A peel tower once stood here, part of a chain of beacons running down the Tweed Valley.

At the end of the nineteenth century the temporary Talla Railway was built close to Polmont to deliver building materials during the construction of the Talla Reservoir.

The estate was acquired by Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, an Edinburgh businessman and politician: he took his baronetcy title from the Peeblesshire estate of Polmood which he had acquired before 1916.

Miscellany

Polmood is commemorated in "The Piper of Polmood" a piece based on old folk-tunes by Victor Babin.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Polmood)

• Hunter of Polmood
• Geographia
• Michael Forbes Tweedie The History of the Tweedie or Tweedy Family (1902)

References

• J W Buchan and Rev. H. Paton: A History of Peeblesshire; 1925-7