Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Tyne

Tyne, an important English river, two of whose head-streams rise in the S of Roxburghshire, on the eastern slope of Carlin-Tooth, near the source of Jed Water, and-run 5½ furlongs eastward through Southdean parish to the Border.


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

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Feature Description: "an important English river"   (ADL Feature Type: "rivers")
Administrative units: Roxburghshire County

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