Tweed Stories
Tweed Stories is a growing online archive of stories, memories and special places submitted by communities who live, work and travel along the river, collected as part of the Destination Tweed project.
It celebrates the nature and history of this iconic river, from source to sea, with new stories uploaded every week!
Discover our Tweed Stories and your treasured places below, or use the search boxes to find particular themes or places of interest to you.
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Hay Lodge Park, Peebles. Wild Writers Festival, Eastgate January 2026. It was ...
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The old highway to Edinburgh crossed the Tweed near Tweedbank. It was ...
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My partner is involved in the Borders Forest Trust, so we decided ...
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I first started creative writing about a year before COVID, enticed by ...
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Jessica was tired. She’d been attacked from all sides, not just physically, ...
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Remembering seeing a goose beside the Tweed, by Tessa (shared at Merlindale ...
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Some years ago I rode across the new concrete Crownhead Bridge near ...
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In the early 1990s we had friends – he was a GP ...
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I have spent most of my life by the River Tweed. Explored ...
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At the meeting of the waters, you’ll still hear folks reminiscing about ...
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We crossed the pass in looping bends and followed the road as ...
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When I booked into Robert Smail’s Printing Press in Innerleithen for a ...
Help us build the Tweed Stories archive!
The River Tweed has inspired generations, and now we’d love to add your story. Submit your story to help us celebrate the River Tweed and its people, places and history.