Communication mast and ancient settlement site, Dreva - geograph

Dreva on Tweed (or simply Dreva) is a hamlet in the

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders ( sco, the Mairches, 'the Marches'; gd, Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, Midlothian, South Lanarkshire, West Lothi ...

. It was historically in Peebles-shire. It is noted for the historical presence of a

Peel tower Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, mainly between the mid-14th century and about 1600. They were free-standin ...

Etymology

The name is first attested quite late, in 1649, as ''Draway''. This seems to be a

Cumbric Cumbric was a variety of the Common Brittonic language spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the ''Hen Ogledd'' or "Old North" in what is now the counties of Westmorland, Cumberland and northern Lancashire in Northern England and the souther ...

name, perhaps cognate with Welsh ''(y) + tref + ma'' 'the place of the (fortified) farmstead'.Bethany Fox,
The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland
, ''The Heroic Age'', 10 (2007) (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).

References

Villages in the Scottish Borders {{Borders-geo-stub