Extensive Definition
Tweeddale is a committee
area and
lieutenancy area in the Scottish Borders.
With a population of 17,394 at the latest census in
2001 it is the second smallest of the 5 committee areas in the
Borders. It is the traditional name for the area drained by the
upper reaches of the River Tweed,
this area was considered to end before the Yarrow Water
flowed into the Tweed, so the area to the south and east, was
bounded by the Yarrow/Tweed watershed,
and to the north and east by the Gala/Tweed
watershed.
Tweeddale was also a historic district of
Scotland, bordering Teviotdale and
the
Marches to the east, Liddesdale and
Annandale to the south, Clydesdale to
the west and Lothian to the
north. The district which covered the Sheriffdoms of
Peebles and
Selkirk
later became of the County of
Peebles in the north and County of
Selkirk or the "Ettrick Forest" in the south, two of the
counties
of Scotland. The main reorganisation took place during the
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, this Act established a
uniform system of county
councils and town councils in Scotland and officially
restructured many of Scotland’s counties. (See:
History of local government in the United Kingdom)
Tweeddale District
In the Scottish local government reorganisation of 1975, Tweeddale became a district in the Borders region. This district was almost identical to the former county of Peeblesshire.Tweeddale area 1975-date