Liddel Water

Liddel Water (Liddel Witter)
River
Upper reaches of Liddel Water
Country United Kingdom
Constituent countries Scotland, England
Source Peel Fell (Scottish side)
 - location near Saughtree, Scottish Borders, Scotland
 - coordinates GB 55°17′17″N 2°35′31″W / 55.288185°N 2.591997°W / 55.288185; -2.591997
Source confluence River Esk
 - location Carwinley, Cumbria, England
 - coordinates GB 55°02′36″N 2°55′58″W / 55.043427°N 2.932672°W / 55.043427; -2.932672

Liddel Water is a river running through southern Scotland and northern England, for much of its course forming the border between the two countries, and was formerly one of the boundaries of the Debatable Lands.

Liddel Water's source is beneath Peel Fell in Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders, 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 (see below) as it follows its southwesterly course, which takes it through the village of Newcastleton (also known as Copshaw Holm) to that of Kershopefoot, where the burn begins to mark the Anglo-Scottish border.

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

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Blaeu - Atlas of Scotland 1654
Liddel Strength. Site of a Norman motte and bailey castle

Tributaries

See also

Coordinates: 55°03′N 2°57′W / 55.050°N 2.950°W / 55.050; -2.950

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