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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The Horncliffe Salmon Procession is an annual winter festival in the village ...
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My first memory of the Scottish Borders was seeing a hedgehog in ...
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My Mum, sister, and I moved to Cornhill-on-Tweed in the 1970s, where ...
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I walk the Tweed regularly with my border collies between the Tweed ...
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In 2004 I was employed by an arts in education initiative running ...
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Travelling through Tweedsmuir, you’ll find an old inn at a bend in ...
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Strawberry Hill rises quietly above Tweedsmuir, its 495-metre summit offering wide, rewarding ...
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Rising quietly to just 538 metres, the hill was hardly impressive at ...
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The house and estate of Makerstoun was home of the Makdougall family ...
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Wordsworth climbed from his carriage and held out his hand to wife ...
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This tale was contributed by The Wilson’s Tales Project which celebrated the ...
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This poem was contributed by The Wilson’s Tales Project which celebrated the ...
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.