Morebattle
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Morebattle is a village in the Scottish Borders
area of Scotland
, on the B6401, seven miles south of Kelso, Scottish Borders, beside the Kale Water
, a tributary
of the River Teviot
.
The nearby Linton Loch was drained in the 19th century to improve agriculture.
The St. Cuthbert's Way
long distance footpath passes through the village.
dialect of Morebattle was the subject of a study by Swiss dialectologist Rudolph Zai, published in 1942.
Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...
area of Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, on the B6401, seven miles south of Kelso, Scottish Borders, beside the Kale Water
Kale Water
The Kale Water is a long tributary of the River Teviot in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Its feeder burns in the Cheviot Hills are the Long Burn, Hawkwillow Burn and the Grindstone Burn, east of Leithope Forest near the Anglo-Scottish Border....
, a tributary
Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...
of the River Teviot
River Teviot
The River Teviot, or Teviot Water, is a river of the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and a tributary of the River Tweed.It rises in the western foothills of Comb Hill on the border of Dumfries and Galloway...
.
The nearby Linton Loch was drained in the 19th century to improve agriculture.
The St. Cuthbert's Way
St. Cuthbert's Way
St Cuthbert's Way is a long-distance trail between the Scottish Borders town of Melrose and Lindisfarne off the coast of Northumberland, England.It is part of the European walking route E2....
long distance footpath passes through the village.
Origins of place-name
The place-name comes from the botl (hamlet) on the mere. No evidence of any battles (the simplistic origin) exists. Similarly, the village's Teapot Street is more likely to be named after the midden (rubbish dump) at the end of the road - Tippit Street - than any legends about Sir Walter Scott seeing someone pouring their tealeaves down the open drain when he was going past in his coach.Dialect of Morebattle
The distinctive traditional Southern ScotsScots language
Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster . It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language variety spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.Since there are no universally accepted...
dialect of Morebattle was the subject of a study by Swiss dialectologist Rudolph Zai, published in 1942.
Famous residents
- James Thomson (poet), the EdnamEdnamDisambiguation: "Ednam" can also refer to the aristocratic title Viscount EdnamEdnam is a small village near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland....
poet, was born in Morebattle. - Robert Davidson (poet)Robert Davidson (poet)Robert Davidson was a Scottish poet and labourer, whose writings give a rare glimpse into the life of the rural labouring poor at the beginning of the 19th century....
, lived and was buried in Morebattle, where he is commemorated.
See also
- MowhaughMowhaughMowhaugh is a hamlet and farm steading near the Calroust Burn and the Bowmont Water, near Morebattle, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and in the former Roxburghshire. It is situated about 5 miles from the Anglo-Scottish Border....
- List of places in the Scottish Borders
- List of places in Scotland