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Map of Scotland showing the historic
district of Tweeddale
Tweeddale is a committee area and lieutenancy area in the
Scottish
Borders. With a population of 17,394
at the latest
census in 2001 it is
the second smallest of the 5 committee areas in the Borders.
It is the
traditional name for the area drained by the upper reaches of the
River Tweed, this area was considered to
end before the Yarrow Water flowed into
the Tweed, so the area to the south and east, was bounded by the
Yarrow/Tweed watershed, and to the
north and east by the Gala
/Tweed
watershed.
Tweeddale
was also a historic district of Scotland, bordering Teviotdale
and the Marches
to the east, Liddesdale
and Annandale to
the south, Clydesdale to the west and
Lothian to the north. The district which
covered the Sheriffdoms of Peebles
and Selkirk
later became
of the County of
Peebles
in the north and County of Selkirk
or the "Ettrick Forest" in the
south, two of the counties of
Scotland. The main reorganisation took place during the
Local Government
Act 1889, this Act established a uniform system of
county councils and town councils in Scotland
and officially restructured many of Scotland’s counties. (See:
History of
local government in the United Kingdom)
Tweeddale District
In the
Scottish local
government reorganisation of 1975, Tweeddale became a
district in the
Borders region.
This district was
almost identical to the former county of Peeblesshire.
| Tweeddale
area 1975-date |
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