Teviothead

Teviothead Gaelic: Ceann Tìobhiot
Roxburghshire
Former smithy at Hendersons Knowe
Location
Grid reference:	NT405055
Location:	55°20’24"N, 2°56’23"W
Data
Population:	198  (2001)
Post town:	Hawick
Postcode:	TD9
Dialling code:	01450
Local Government
Council:	Scottish Borders
Parliamentary constituency:	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

Teviothead is a small village and parish in Roxburghshire adjacent to the borders with Dumfriesshire and Selkirkshire. The A7 trunk road from Carlisle to Edinburgh and the River Teviot both make their way through the centre of the parish, with the village located where the two converge. Adjacent parishes are Hawick and Cavers to the east; Castleton to the south-east; Ewes, Westerkirk and Eskdalemuir (all in Dumfriesshire) to the south, west and north-west respectively; and Roberton (in both Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire) to the north.

The Border hero Johnnie Armstrong, was taken prisoner and executed here in 1530, by King James V, and his men. A fine memorial stone exists in the churchyard, and a marker in the adjacent field, shows the traditional site of the grave.

Tom Jenkins, Britain's first black schoolmaster taught at the Smithy, now occupied by the Johnnie Armstrong Gallery, from 1814 to 1818.

The poet Henry Scott Riddell died in Teviotdale.

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