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Pages in category "Berwick-upon-Tweed" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Berwick Advertiser was established in 1808 and moved into premises at 90 Marygate, Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1900. [1] Tweeddale Press Group was formed in 1950 when Berwick Advertiser owner Major J.I.M. Smail bought the Southern Reporter. [2] [3] The group took over the Berwickshire News in 1957. [3]
Berwick-upon-Tweed was a local government district and borough in Northumberland in the north-east of England, on the border with Scotland.The district had a resident population of 25,949 according to the 2001 census, which also notes that it is the most ethnically homogeneous in the country, with 99.6% of the population recording themselves in the 2001 census as White.
Paxton is a small village near the B6461 and the B6460, in the pre-1975 ancient county of Berwickshire, now an administrative area of the Borders region of Scotland.It lies 1 mile west of the border with Northumberland, It is a traditional, country village surrounded by farmland, and its closest market towns are Duns and Berwick-upon-Tweed.
The Royal Tweed Bridge, also known as the New Bridge locally, is a road bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England crossing the River Tweed. It was intended to divert traffic from the 17th century Berwick Bridge , and until the 1980s it formed part of the A1 road , the main route from London to Edinburgh .
Berwick-upon-Tweed Lifeboat Station is located on the south bank of the River Tweed at Tweedmouth, part of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in the county of Northumberland.. A lifeboat was first provided by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (RNIPLS) in 1835, located at Spittal, and managed by the Berwick Lifeboat Association.
The bridge is now one way, from east to west. A short distance upstream is the Royal Tweed Bridge, which succeeded the Berwick Bridge as the main road crossing of the Tweed at Berwick when it opened in 1928. [11] In 1984, the A1 River Tweed Bridge opened about a mile to the west of Berwick, carrying the A1 road around the town. [9]
Paxton House. Paxton House is a historic house at Paxton, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders, a few miles south-west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, overlooking the River Tweed.. It is a country house built for Patrick Home of Billie in an unsuccessful attempt to woo a Prussian heiress.