Dewar, Scottish Borders
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Dewar is a village by the Dewar Burn and Peatrig Hill
, in the Scottish Borders
area of Scotland
.
Places nearby include Allanshaugh
, Borthwick
Hall, Fountainhall, Garvald
, the Gladhouse Reservoir
, Heriot
, the Heriot Water, the Leithen Water
, Lugate and the Lugate Water.
Peatrig Hill
Peatrig Hill is a minor hill in Scotland, located about 15 km south-southeast of Edinburgh. One of the Moorfoot Hills, it is located in the parish of Heriot in the Scottish Borders Council Area....
, in the Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders
The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...
area of Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
.
Places nearby include Allanshaugh
Allanshaugh
Allanshaugh is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.-External links:**...
, Borthwick
Borthwick
Borthwick is a small hamlet in Midlothian, Scotland. To the west of the village is the fifteenth-century Borthwick Castle. Other places nearby include Temple, Midlothian, Newbattle, Newbattle Abbey, Heriot, Scottish Borders.-External links:******...
Hall, Fountainhall, Garvald
Garvald, Scottish Borders
Garvald is a hamlet on the B7007, near Dewar, by the Dewar Burn, in the Moorfoot Hills, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Peeblesshire.Places nearby include Borthwick Hall, Heriot, the Leithen Water, Peatrig Hill, and Peebles....
, the Gladhouse Reservoir
Gladhouse Reservoir
Gladhouse Reservoir, formerly Moorfoot Loch, is a reservoir in Midlothian, Scotland, five miles south of Penicuik. It is the largest area of freshwater in the Lothians....
, Heriot
Heriot
Heriot, from Old English heregeat , was originally a death-duty in late Anglo-Saxon England, which required that at death, a nobleman provided to his king a given set of military equipment, often including horses, swords, shields, spears and helmets...
, the Heriot Water, the Leithen Water
Leithen Water
Leithen Water is a tributary of the River Tweed in Scotland. It joins it near the town of Innerleithen, whose name comes from the Scottish Gaelic inbhir, meaning a confluence, and anglicised as "inner" or "inver". The Brythonic equivalent is "Aber". "Leithen" is a Celtic name meaning grey in...
, Lugate and the Lugate Water.