Liddel Water is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

running through southern

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and northern

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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

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. Liddel Water's source is beneath

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 ...

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, in the

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, where it is formed by the confluence of Caddroun Burn, Wormscleuch Burn and Peel Burn (burn is the Scots term for a stream). Soon afterwards, the nascent Liddel Water is fed by Dawston Burn near the village of Saughtree. The river continues to pick up tributaries (listed below) as it follows its southwesterly course, which takes it through the village of

Newcastleton Newcastleton, also called Copshaw Holm, is a village in Liddesdale, the Scottish Borders, a few miles from the border with England, on the Liddel Water. It is within the county of Roxburghshire. It is the site of Hermitage Castle. Newcastleton ...

(also known as ''Copshaw Holm'') to that of

Kershopefoot Kershopefoot is a small hamlet in Cumbria, England, traditionally in Cumberland. It is located very close to the Scotland-England border and is near the Kershope Burn and the Liddel Water. Kershopefoot is most well known for its lodge house (K ...

, where the burn begins to mark the

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. Liddel Water then flows into the River Esk at Willow Pool, overlooked by the earthworks of the former castle of

Liddel Strength Liddel Strength is an ancient monument near Carwinley, Cumbria, in northwest England. It consists of the earthwork remains of an Anglo-Norman border fortification (the seat of the barony of Liddel) destroyed by the Scots in 1346 (a wooden motte ...

near Carwinley,

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Blaeu - Atlas of Scotland 1654 - EVIA ET ESCIA - Eskdale

Earthworks and Liddel Strength - geograph

Tributaries

*Peel Burn *Wormscleuch Burn *Caddroun Burn **Wane Cleuch **Singdean Burn *Dawston Burn **Cooper Cleuch **Alison Sike **Cliffhope Burn *Kiln Burn (at Burnmouth Farm) *Riccarton Burn (at Riccarton Farm) * Larriston Burn (at Hewisbridge Cottage) **Storff Burn **Little Warrington Sike ***Bught Sike **Holm Sikes *Boghall Burn (at Dinlabyre) *Riever Sike (at Ovenshank) *

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 Gorrenbe ...

(near Sandholm) **Hartsgarth Burn ***Routing Burn **Thief Sike **Paddington Sike **Toftholm Sike **Roughley Burn ***Watt's Burn ***Roughley Sike ***Laidlehope Burn ***Leys Burn ** Whitrope 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 is a burn 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 runnin ...

(at

) **Clark's Sike *Muir Burn (near Bankhead) **Rae Gill *Whitlawside Burn (near Whitlawside) *Archer Beck (near Crookholm) **Mid Cleuch *Rowan Burn (at Rowanburnfoot)

Tributaries

See also