TEVIOTDALE

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TEVIOTDALE , the valley of the

Teviot

TEVIOT, ANDREW RUTHERFORD, EARL OF (d. 1664)

, Roxburghshire,

Scotland

. In a limited sense the word describes the stretch above Hawick (g m.) and, in a wider sense, the whole vale, extending in a north-easterly direction from Teviothead nearly to the confines of the parish of Roxburgh, a distance of 23 M. It is sometimes incorrectly used as an alternative name for the shire, much of the area of which, in point of fact, lies outside the

Teviot

TEVIOT, ANDREW RUTHERFORD, EARL OF (d. 1664)

drainage basin. There are numerous points of

interest

INTEREST

in the dale.

Henry

HENRY
HENRY (1129-1195)
HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng.
home
, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Scott Riddell (1798-1870), the poet, was buried at Teviothead. Almost side by side in the church-yard are the obelisk near his grave and the memorial stone erected in the cemetery

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

to John 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 order of James V. Riddell is further commemorated by a monument on Dryden hill. Branxholm tower, the peel of Goldielands, and Harden castle (on Harden burn, a tributary of Northwick water) are spots familiar through the writings of Sir Walter Scott and many Border ballads. Five m. to the

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

of Hawick stands the hill of Ruberslaw (1392 ft.). Among the crags on its summit is the rock, still called "

Peden

PEDEN, ALEXANDER (c. 1626-1686)

's chair," from which Alexander

Peden

PEDEN, ALEXANDER (c. 1626-1686)

preached to conventicles of

Covenanters

COVENANTERS

. Below Hawick

interest

INTEREST

principally centres around Minto, Hassendeanthe Hazeldean of Sir Walter Scott's song, " Jock o' Hazeldean "and Ancrum.

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