Liddel Water

Liddel Water
Liddel Water
	Upper reaches of Liddel Water
Native name	Liddel Witter Error {{native name checker}}: parameter value is malformed (help)
Location
Country	United Kingdom
Constituent countries	Scotland, England
Physical characteristics
Source	Peel Fell (Scottish side)
• location	near Saughtree, Scottish Borders, Scotland
• coordinates	55°17′17″N 2°35′31″W / 55.288185°N 2.591997°W
Source confluence	River Esk
• location	Carwinley, Cumbria, England
• coordinates	55°02′36″N 2°55′58″W / 55.043427°N 2.932672°W

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 (listed 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.

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 (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 (at Kershopefoot)
- 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