Lyne () is a small village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

in the

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and Galloway to the south-west, South Lanarkshire to the we ...

area of

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, west of the market town of

Peebles Peebles () is a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was historically a royal burgh and the county town of Peeblesshire. According to the United Kingdom census, 2011, 2011 census, the population was 8,376 and the estimated population in ...

; it lies off the A72, in the old county of

Peeblesshire Peeblesshire (), the County of Peebles or Tweeddale is a Counties of Scotland, historic county of Scotland. Its county town is Peebles, and it borders Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lanarkshire ...

and has an area of about . The Lyne Water flows through the village on its journey from the

Pentland Hills The Pentland Hills are a range of hills southwest of Edinburgh, Scotland. The range is around in length, and runs southwest from Edinburgh towards Biggar and the upper Clydesdale. Etymology The hills take their name from the hamlet of Pe ...

to the

River Tweed The River Tweed, or Tweed Water, is a river long that flows east across the Border region in Scotland and northern England. Tweed cloth derives its name from its association with the River Tweed. The Tweed is one of the great salmon rivers ...

. Lyne railway station was, along with Stobo railway station, one of the nine intermediate stations of the

Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway The Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway was a railway company in southern Scotland. It built a line connecting Biggar, and later Peebles, to the main line railway at Symington. It was taken over by the Caledonian Railway in 1861, and was c ...

branch line. See also: Lyne Viaduct. Dawyck Botanic Garden and Dawyck House are nearby. Lyne Kirk6

By an Act of the Scottish Parliament of 1621,XXIII Parliament, 4 August 1621, Act V Amend the Plantation of Kirks, as yet unplanted (p129 of Laws and Acts Parliament since 1597, Edinburgh 1674) the Parish of Lyne was joined to that Megget, some to the south without any proper connecting road. This union was dissolved after 270 years in 1891.Confirmed by Order in Council 12 January 1891, see Edinburgh Gazette 27 January 1891, p. 99

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Biggar Archaeology Group / Lyne Heritage TrailPhotos of Lyne Railway stationRCAHMS: Border Union Railway, river Lyne Bridge to Harker SectionRCAHMS record for Lyne station
Villages in the Scottish Borders Peeblesshire Parishes in Peeblesshire {{Borders-geo-stub