Source Of The Tweed Traditional Cache
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The Source Of The Tweed.
From the Tweed's Well the Tweed starts its 97 mile journey to the sea, draining a basin of 1870 square miles, but if it were not for a roadside sign you would motor right past it. Nearby on the summit of the pass once stood a wayside shrine, a welcome landmark for the weary traveller. This was Tweed's Cross which did not survive the Reformation of the Church in Scotland. It was here in 1306 that Sir James Douglas is said to have sworn fealty to Robert the Bruce who was on his way to be crowned at Scone. This young man, subsequently the 'Good Sir James', became Bruce's right-hand man and was the only one of the leaders of the rising who had not earlier paid homage to the English King. For the next few miles the Tweed passes through a wide glen which in summer time is pleasing to the eye, but in winter, when the wind is blowing and the snow is drifting, it is better to be by the fire-side Major towns through which the Tweed flows include Peebles, Galashiels, Melrose, Kelso, Coldstream and Berwick-upon-Tweed, where it flows into the North Sea.
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