Yetholm Loch
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Yetholm Loch is a small loch to the west of Town Yetholm in Roxburghshire, lying over the hump of Yetholm Law form the village. The loch lies in a crescent-shaped valley, at the edge of the Cheviot Hills, not far from the Northumberland boundary.
The southern end of the loch is swamp, but it gradually gives way to fen and willow scrub.
There was once a tower on an island in Yetholm Loch which could be reached by a causeway. The tower was destroyed by the Earl of Surrey on the night of 17 May 1523.
Today the loch and the area around it is a nature reserve belonging to the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
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