Cardrona is a village on the A72 and B7062, between

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and Innerleithen, in the

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area of

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. Places nearby include Glentress, Kirkburn, Scottish Borders, Kirkhouse,

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, and Walkerburn.

History

In 1999 local farmer Tom Renwick spent £5m on the development of Cardrona, a small village to be created near the town of

. There was controversy towards the project because people felt that it would destroy the view of the

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and the hills that surround it but the development of the village went ahead. Roughly 220 houses were built around the Cardrona area, and the last street was named "Renwick Lane" after its founder. A hotel now known as the MacDonald Hotel was built later on, along with a golf course. In the late 2000s Cardrona got a PlayPark built inside of the small patch of land near Govan's Way. In 2010 Cardrona got a Pump Track after winning a competition in the Scottish Borders. It was built in August 2010 and then got rebuilt in 2018, and shortly reopened in February 2018 after the Bikescapes team re-imagined the track after it had grown on itself over time. This was built in Cardrona mostly to supplement younger children's biking needs and to influence them to go biking at Glentress in the future.

Etymology

''Cardrona'' is etymologically a

Cumbric Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the ''Hen Ogledd'' or "Old North", in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. It was closely related to Old Welsh and the ot ...

place-name. The first element is cognate with Welsh ''caer'' 'fortification'. The second element is less clear but recent work suggests a word cognate with Welsh ''trwyn'', literally 'nose' but attested in Welsh and Cornish place-names in the sense 'promontory'. If so the name means something like 'fort of the promontories'.Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).

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RCAHMS record for Cardrona, Horsburgh ViaductSCRAN Image: Cardrona Viaduct, Cardrona, Peebles-shireCardrona Standing StonesGEOGRAPH image: Tweed Bridge, Cardrona
Villages in the Scottish Borders {{Borders-geo-stub

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