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Denholm is a small village located between Jedburgh and Hawick in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland, UK. The estimated population of Denholm is 600. There is a village green in the centre. It lies in the valley of the River Teviot. Denholm is a Conservation Area listed as 'a planned village as opposed to the traditional unplanned or organic form of village usually found in Roxburghshire.'
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Cessford Burn is a small stream which eventually runs to meet the Kale Water and then joins the River Teviot, finally entering the River Tweed at Kelso, Scotland.
Roxburgh Castle is a ruined royal castle that overlooks the junction of the rivers Tweed and Teviot, in the Borders region of Scotland. The town and castle developed into the royal burgh of Roxburgh, which the Scots destroyed along with the castle after capturing it in 1460. Today the ruins stand in the grounds of Floors Castle, the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe, across the river from Kelso.
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- ↑ Joseph Bain, Hamilton Papers, 1 (Edinburgh, 1890), pp. lxviii, 305.
- ↑ James Gairdner & R H Brodie, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. 20:2 (London, 1907), no. 400: State Papers Henry the Eighth, Part IV (London, 1836), pp. 521-2.
- ↑ David Laing, 'Account of the Earl of Hertford's Second Expedition to Scotland', PSAS, p. 277: Samuel Haynes, Collection of State Papers (London, 1740), p. 53.
- ↑ Redpath, Alastair M. (15 May 2014). Hawick Through Time. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-3926-0.
- ↑ George Tancred (1907). Rulewater and Its People: An Account of the Valley of the Rule and Its ... New York Public Library. Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable.
