Liddel Water is a river

River

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 running through southern Scotland

Scotland

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 and northern England

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, for much of its course forming the border between the two countries, and was formerly one of the boundaries of the Debatable Lands

Debatable Lands

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Liddel Water's source is beneath Peel Fell

Peel Fell

Peel Fell is the highest hill in the Kielder Forest region of England, making it the highest hill for several miles in each direction until the Cheviot Hills to the north-east are reached. Because of this, it has enough relative height to make it a Marilyn...

 in Roxburghshire

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, in the Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders

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, where it is formed by the confluence of Caddroun Burn, Wormscleuch Burn and Peel Burn (burn is the Scots

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 term for a stream). Soon afterwards, the nascent Liddel Water is fed by Dawston Burn near the village of Saughtree

Saughtree

Saughtree is a village by the B6357 and the Liddel Water, in Liddesdale, near Newcastleton, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.The Dawston Burn is a tributary of the Liddel Water. Saughtree Fell is a hill which rises to 450m...

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The river continues to pick up tributaries (see below) as it follows its southwesterly course, which takes it through the village of Newcastleton

Newcastleton

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 (also known as Copshaw Holm) to that of Kershopefoot

Kershopefoot

Kershopefoot is a small village in Cumbria, England. It is located very close to the Scotland-England border and is near the Kershope Burn and the Liddel Water....

, where the burn begins to mark the Anglo-Scottish border

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Liddel Water then flows into the River Esk

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 at Willow Pool, beneath the earthwork castle of Liddel Strength near Carwinley, Cumbria

Cumbria

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 in north west England.

Tributaries

• Peel Burn
• Wormscleuch Burn
• Caddroun Burn
  • Wane Cleuch
  • Singdean Burn
• Dawston Burn
  • Cooper Cleuch
  • Alison Sike
  • Cliffhope Burn
• Kiln Burn (at Burnmouth
  Burnmouth
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   Farm)
• Riccarton
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   Burn (at Riccarton Farm)
• Larriston Burn (at Hewisbridge Cottage)
  • Storff Burn
  • Little Warrington Sike
    • Bught Sike
  • Holm Sikes
• Boghall Burn (at Dinlabyre
  Dinlabyre
  Dinlabyre is a village on the B6357 in Liddesdale, on the edge of the Newcastleton Forest, close to Castleton, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire....
  
  )
• Riever Sike (at Ovenshank)
• Hermitage Water
  Hermitage Water
  The Hermitage Water is a river in Liddesdale, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Among its many feeder burns are Braidley Burn, Dinley Burn, Gorrenberry Burn and Twislehope Burn. The Water flows through the hamlets of Dinley and Gorrenberry, and through the village of Hermitage, and past...
  
   (near Sandholm)
  • Hartsgarth Burn
    • Routing Burn
  • Thief Sike
  • Paddington Sike
  • Toftholm Sike
  • Roughley Burn
    • Watt's Burn
    • Roughley Sike
    • Laidlehope Burn
    • Leys Burn
  • Whitrope
    Whitrope
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     Burn
    • Pirryshiel Sike
    • Sundhope Burn
      • Black Cleuch
      • Windy Cleuch
  • Dinley Burn
  • Braidley Burn
    • Tongue Burn
    • Barley Burn
    • Crib Burn
  • Gorrenberry Burn
  • Billhope Burn
    • Langtae Sike
  • Chapel Grain
    • Caulker Grain
  • Twislehope Burn
• Ryedale Burn (near Brox)
  • Ralton Burn
    • Burnt Burn
    • Rigging Sike
• Black Burn (opposite Whithaugh)
  • Bedda Cleuch
  • Branch Cleuch
  • Hog Gill
  • Long Gill
    • Rough Gill
• Priesthill Burn (at Whithaugh)
• Tweeden Burn (at Tweeden Plantation)
  • Deep Sike
• Tinnis Burn (opposite Kershopefoot)
  • Todhunter Grain
  • Black Grain
  • Green Burn
• Kershope Burn
  Kershope Burn
  Kershope Burn is a minor river running in its entirety along the border between England and Scotland.The river rises, as Clark's Sike, in a marshy area in Kielder Forest Northumberland known as Hobb's Flow, before becoming Kershope Burn after running by Kershopehead, a farmstead in Cumbria.The...
  
   (at Kershopefoot
  Kershopefoot
  Kershopefoot is a small village in Cumbria, England. It is located very close to the Scotland-England border and is near the Kershope Burn and the Liddel Water....
  
  )
  • Clark's Sike
• Muir Burn (near Bankhead)
  • Rae Gill
• Whitlawside Burn (near Whitlawside)
• Archer Beck (near Crookholm)
  • Mid Cleuch
• Rowan Burn (at Rowanburnfoot)

See also

• Rivers of Scotland
• List of places in the Scottish Borders