My favourite memories of the Tweed, and Berwick in particular, are all tied up with the love of our dearly departed dog, Otter. A nice family from the borders surrendered her to the Berwick animal shelter after a change in circumstances and luckily we were the people chosen to take her home. Already an older […]

BURNFOOT, LOWER DRYBURGH, RIVER TWEED. It was a sad but glorious morning at Burnfoot on the Lower Dryburgh beat when we tipped his ashes from the urn into the river – the magnificent beech and oak trees were starting to colour with autumn hues and bowed gently with respect in the very slight breeze. It […]

The Tweed Estuary at Berwick-upon-Tweed is of national importance for mute swans whose numbers peak at around 800 individuals.

James Valentine, working for his family company, took some of the earliest photographs of the Tweed in the 1860’s.

The River Tweed is renowned for its world-class salmon fishing but, how much do you really know about this king of the river? 

According to the medieval tale, ‘The Life of Merlin of the Forest’, Merlin lived in the woods of the South of Scotland in the late 6th Century.