Berwickshire
Berwickshire is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in south-eastern Scotland, on the English border. The county takes its name from Berwick-upon-Tweed, its original county town, which was part of Scotland at the time of the county's…- Type: County with 26,200 residents
- Description: historic county in the Scottish Borders
- Neighbors: Northumberland
Notable Places in the Area
Dirrington Great Law
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dirrington Great Law is a hill in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former county of Berwickshire.
Localities in the Area
Greenlaw
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Greenlaw is a town and civil parish situated in the foothills of the Lammermuir Hills on Blackadder Water at the junction of the A697 and the A6105 in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
Bedshiel
Bedshiel is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland on the B6456, six miles from Duns, two miles from Greenlaw, Longformacus and Westruther.Westruther
Photo: Renata, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Westruther is a village on the B6465, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the lower slopes of the Lammermuir Hills, in the former Berwickshire.
Berwickshire
Latitude
55.75° or 55° 45' northLongitude
-2.5° or 2° 30' westPopulation
26,200Elevation
216 metres (709 feet)Open Location Code
9C7VQG22+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 302323874OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
2655820Wikidata ID
Q786649Berwickshire Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: بيروكشير
- Belarusian: Бэрўікшыр
- Bengali: মিড বারউইকশায়ার
- Catalan: Berwickshire
- Cebuano: Berwickshire
- Chinese: 伯立克郡
- Chinese: 巴域郡
- Chinese: 貝里克郡
- Chinese: 贝里克郡
- Czech: Berwickshire
- Dutch: Berwickshire
- English: County of Berwick
- English: VC81
- Esperanto: Berwickshire
- Esperanto: Siorrachd Bhearaig
- French: Berwickshire
- French: Siorrachd Bhearaig
- German: Berwickshire
- Greek: Μπέρκσιαρ
- Gujarati: બરવિકશાયર
- Hebrew: ברוויקשייר
- Irish: Berwickshire
- Irish: Siorrachd Bhearaig
- Italian: Berwickshire
- Japanese: バーウィックシャー
- Japanese: ベリックシア
- Japanese: ベリックシャイア
- Japanese: ベリックシャー
- Kannada: ಬರ್ವಿಕ್ಶೈರ್
- Korean: 중부 베릭셔
- Kurdish: Berwickshire
- Latin: Bervicensis
- Latin: Siorrachd Bhearaig
- Lithuanian: Mid Bervikšyras
- Norwegian Bokmål: Berwickshire
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Berewicscīr
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Berewicsċīr
- Persian: برویکشر
- Polish: Berwickshire
- Portuguese: Berwickshire
- Russian: Беруикшир
- Scots: Berwickshire
- Scottish Gaelic: Berwickshire
- Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Bhearaig
- Serbo-Croatian: Berwickshire
- Slovenian: Berwickshire
- Spanish: Berwickshire
- Spanish: Siorrachd Bhearaig
- Swedish: Berwickshire
- Tamil: பெருவிக்க்ஷிர்
- Telugu: బెర్విక్ షైర్
- Ukrainian: Бервікшир
- Urdu: بیرویکشائر
- Welsh: Berwickshire
- Berwick
- Berwick County
In the Area
Localities
- Greenlaw MoorLocality
- EvelawLocality
- CammerlawsLocality
- FlourishwallsLocality
- WedderlieLocality
- GreenlawdeanHamlet
Landmarks
- Greenlaw MoorHeath
- Hurd LawPeak
- Dirrington Little LawPeak
- Blackcastle RingsFort
- Evelaw Tower (remains of)Castle
- Harelaw MoorHeath
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