Cardrona, Scottish Borders

Cardrona
Cardrona
	Cardrona Location within the Scottish Borders
Population	890 (mid-2020 est.)
Council area	Scottish Borders ;
Lieutenancy area	Tweeddale ;
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PEEBLES
Postcode district	EH45
Dialling code	01896
Police	Scotland
Fire	Scottish
Ambulance	Scottish
UK Parliament	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale ;
Scottish Parliament	Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale. ;
	List of places UK Scotland 55°38′24″N3°06′44″W / 55.6401°N 3.1121°W

Last updated January 22, 2024

Cardrona is a village on the A72 and B7062, between Peebles and Innerleithen, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

History

In 1999 local farmer Tom Renwick spent £5m on the development of Cardrona, a small village to be created near the town of Peebles. There was controversy towards the project because people felt that it would destroy the view of the River Tweed and the hills that surround it but the development of the village went ahead. Roughly 220 houses were built around the Cardrona area, and the last street was named "Renwick Lane" after its founder. A hotel now known as the MacDonald Hotel was built later on, along with a golf course.^[2]

In the late 2000s Cardrona got a PlayPark built inside of the small patch of land near Govan's Way.

In 2010 Cardrona got a Pump Track after winning a competition in the Scottish Borders. It was built in August 2010 and then got rebuilt in 2018, and shortly reopened in February 2018 after the Bikescapes team re-imagined the track after it had grown on itself over time. This was built in Cardrona mostly to supplement younger children's biking needs and to influence them to go biking at Glentress in the future.^[3]

Etymology

Cardrona is etymologically a Cumbric place-name. The first element is cognate with Welsh caer 'fortification'. The second element is less clear but recent work suggests a word cognate with Welsh trwyn, literally 'nose' but attested in Welsh and Cornish place-names in the sense 'promontory'. If so the name means something like 'fort of the promontories'.^[4]

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References

↑ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
↑ BBC News, September 30th 1999, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/461689.stm
↑ Ibikeride Magazine; https://www.ibikeride.com/scotland/2173-cardrona-pump-n-jump-track
↑ Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).

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[1] "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.

[2] BBC News, September 30th 1999, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/461689.stm

[3] Ibikeride Magazine; https://www.ibikeride.com/scotland/2173-cardrona-pump-n-jump-track

[4] Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).

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