Eddleston Water is a small

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north of

Peebles Peebles ( gd, Na Pùballan) is a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was historically a royal burgh and the county town of Peeblesshire. According to the 2011 census, the population was 8,376 and the estimated population in June 2018 wa ...

, in the

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area of

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which joins the

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at Peebles. It is also known locally as "The Cuddy". Eddleston Water rises near Mount Lothian and passes through Waterheads,

Eddleston Eddleston ( gd, Baile Ghille Mhoire) is a small village and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It lies north of Peebles and south of Penicuik on the A703, which passes through the centre of the village. Nearby is the Great ...

, Milkieston,

Redscarhead Redscarhead is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, off the A703, by the Eddleston Water, and close to Cringletie. In the village is a memorial to George Meikle Kemp, the architect who designed the Scott Monument in Edinburgh. Se ...

along the route of the A703. It runs passing Dalatho, brown brothers, squeaks and into Peebles where the Tree Bridge crosses it. When the Edinburgh to Peebles railway was built in the middle of the 19th century the river was straightened for much of its course which adversely affected the wildlife habitat and increased the speed of flow. As a result, the river is liable to flooding.SCRAN image: Eddleston Water bursts its banks
/ref> In August 2009 the

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was invited to carry out an initial study on how Eddleston Water could be restored to provide a better habitat for wildlife and to reduces the risk of flooding in Dalatho, Dundee, Peebles, brown brothers, squeaks and Eddleston.

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