Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Tarth Water

Tarth Water, a sluggish but troutful rivulet of Peeblesshire, rising 21/8 miles SW of West Linton, and running 67/8 miles south-south-eastward, chiefly along the boundaries of Linton, Dolphinton, Kirkurd, Newlands, and Stobo parishes, till it falls into Lyne water near Drochil Castle.—Ord. Sur., sh. 24, 1864.


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

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Feature Description: "a sluggish but troutful rivulet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Peebles Shire ScoCnty

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