Kershope Burn, a rivulet of Castleton parish, S Roxburghshire, rising at an altitude of 1255 feet above sea-level, and running ¼ mile south-eastward to the boundary with Cumberland, and then 8¾ miles south-westward along the English Border, till, after a total descent of 975 feet, it falls into the Liddel at a point 3 ¼ miles S by W of Newcastleton. Its waters are well stocked with trout.—Ord. Sur., sh. 11, 1863.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)