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TEVIOTDALE

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TEVIOTDALE , the valley of the See also:

Teviot, See also:Roxburghshire, See also:Scotland. In a limited sense the word describes the stretch above See also:Hawick (g m.) and, in a wider sense, the whole vale, extending in a See also:north-easterly direction from Teviothead nearly to the confines of the See also:parish of Roxburgh, a distance of 23 M. It is sometimes incorrectly used as an alternative name for the See also:shire, much of the See also:area of which, in point of fact, lies outside the Teviot drainage See also:basin. There are numerous points of See also:interest in the See also:dale. See also:Henry See also:Scott Riddell (1798-1870), the poet, was buried at Teviothead. Almost See also:side by side in the See also:church-yard are the See also:obelisk near his See also:grave and the memorial See also:stone erected in the See also:cemetery See also:wall to See also:John See also:Armstrong of Gilnockie, the celebrated freebooter, who, along with several followers, was treacherously seized in 1530 and hanged at Caerlanrigg, in the immediate vicinity, by See also:order of See also:James V. Riddell is further commemorated by a See also:monument on See also:Dryden See also:hill. See also:Branxholm See also:tower, the See also:peel of Goldielands, and Harden See also:castle (on Harden See also:burn, a tributary of Northwick See also:water) are spots See also:familiar through the writings of See also:Sir See also:Walter Scott and many Border See also:ballads. Five m. to the See also:east of Hawick stands the hill of Ruberslaw (1392 ft.). Among the crags on its See also:summit is the See also:rock, still called " See also:Peden's See also:chair," from which See also:Alexander Peden preached to conventicles of See also:Covenanters. Below Hawick interest principally centres around See also:Minto, Hassendean—the Hazeldean of Sir Walter Scott's See also:song, " Jock o' Hazeldean "—and See also:Ancrum.

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