Borders Forest Trust’s 2025/26 planting season is now underway! Borders Forest Trust is aiming to plant another 20,000 trees in the next planting season – including 15,000 funded by Destination Tweed – and they need your help! Come prepared with sturdy footwear and clothing suitable for the great outdoors and changing weather. 🚌 The Wild […]

FULLY BOOKED Part of Uncovering the Tweed: Join AOC Archaeology for an engaging, hands-on workshop that explores the fascinating world of prehistoric stone technology, part of our Prehistoric Lives theme within the Uncovering the Tweed project. Whether you’re a seasoned field-walker, a passionate prehistorian, or just starting your journey with lithics, this workshop offers something […]

Building on the results of work at the same site in October 2024, join AOC Archaeology Group in returning to Adie’s Brae to uncover more of the story! Previous work confirmed that the site is indeed a scooped settlement dating to the Iron Age, with the remains of at least two roundhouses within an enclosing […]

FULLY BOOKED Join the Uncovering the Tweed team for an introduction to geophysical survey at Drumelzier Haugh. The session will involve an introduction to geophysics and training on how to use the resistivity equipment to survey the area around a medieval hoard findspot, to help add to what is currently known about the context of […]

I walk the Tweed regularly with my border collies between the Tweed Bridge at Manor and the Barns estate. Have done so for the last 30+ years. So many happy times spent there walking in all seasons watching the spring birds arrive, seeing kingfishers and otters and other wildlife. I especially love the arrival of […]

Travelling through Tweedsmuir, you’ll find an old inn at a bend in the road where hills, travellers, and stories have met for centuries. It’s called The Crook Inn, and one of its most memorable characters was a woman known as Jeanie O’ the Crook. Jeanie Hutchison was born at the inn in 1807, daughter of […]