The water, a tributary of the River Tweed, is known also as the River Ettrick, often locally known as Wild Ettrick ( though that title refers more correctly to the Ettrick Forest and the Ettrick Valley ), and it flows through the village, and its flood plain, the Ettrick Marshes.

The FDNY derives its name from the Tweed Charter which created the Fire Department of the City of New York.

It is one of the three rivers that are generally considered to constitute the Northern Rivers District of New South Wales, the other two being the Clarence River to the south and the Tweed River to the north.

This was the Treaty of York which defined the boundary between the two kingdoms as running between the Solway Firth ( in the west ) and the mouth of the River Tweed ( in the east ).

At the end of the decade a Tweed Mill was established, which was steam powered using water from the Duck River.

Berwick upon Tweed was captured by England in 1482.

The line only operated for a few months, closing after Beach was unsuccessful in getting permission to extend it – Boss Tweed, an immensely powerful local politician, did not want it to go ahead as he was intending to personally invest into competing schemes for an elevated rail line.

He was the scourge of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall political machine.

The earldom was bounded by the River Tees in the south and the River Tweed in the north ( broadly similar to the modern North East England ).

On the northern border, Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is north of the Tweed but had changed hands many times, was defined as subject to the laws of England by the Wales and Berwick Act 1746.

The land north of the Tweed was finally ceded to Scotland in 1018 as a result of the battle of Carham.

On 19 September the Scottish army was at Ellem and on 21 September 1496 they crossed the River Tweed at Coldstream.

The Delft Report was published in 1971 and outlined a series of works for Gold Coast Beaches including Gold Coast Seaway, works at Narrowneck that resulted in the Northern Gold Coast Beach Protection Strategy and works at the Tweed River that became the Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project.

After crossing the border at Berwick upon Tweed on 1 August 1503, Margaret was met by the Scottish court at Lamberton.

At this time the Tweed Volcano was active.

The Battle of Carham, by the River Tweed, was a victory for the Scots led by Máel Coluim and the men of Strathclyde led by their king, Owen the Bald.

His place of birth is matter of dispute, but William Bulleyn, who was a native of Ely, and probably knew him when he was in the monastery there, asserts that he was born " beyonde the cold river of Twede " ( River Tweed, i. e. in Scotland ).

This list was compiled from famous cover-ups such as Watergate Scandal, Iran-Contra Affair, My Lai Massacre, Pentagon Papers, the cover-up of corruption in New York City under Boss Tweed ( William M. Tweed and Tammany Hall ) in the late 1800s, and the tobacco industry coverup of the health hazards of smoking.

The Tweed Machine put him in prison for a short time but he was released with the assistance of the Fenians.

It is said that a son of King Malcolm IV of Scotland ( who was staying at Traquair House on a hunting trip ), drowned accidentally in a deep pool at the confluence of the rivers Leithen and Tweed.

Cockburn was one of the most popular men north of the Tweed.

A line of these towers was built in the 1430s across the Tweed valley from Berwick to its source, as a response to the dangers of invasion from the Marches.

The town is said to have been founded by an itinerant pilgrim monk called St. Ronan in A. D. 737, who came to Innerleithen via the River Tweed in a coracle.

Cliftonville was founded on 20 September 1879 after an advertisement in the Belfast News-Letter and Northern Whig in which John McAlery, a young Belfast businessman and manager of the " Irish Tweed House ", Royal Avenue, and later with premises in Rosemary Street, asked people to sign up with " Cliftonville Association Football Club ".

Around 95 per cent of Harris Tweed production is from the mills of Harris Tweed Hebrides in Shawbost, Isle of Lewis, a company founded in 2007 and who have had success in extending the appeal of this " champagne of fabrics.

Scottish Borders Council is considering an application by a property developer to build a housing estate on the opposite bank of the River Tweed from Abbotsford, to which Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland object.

* 1482 – The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army

Britain, which reached from the Tweed, Westward, as far as the river Ex ; Wales inclosed by the rivers Severn, and Dee ; and Cornwall from the river Ex to the Land's-End ".

The " Brains " Boss Tweed depicted by Thomas Nast in a wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly, October 21, 1871

* July 26 – Opening of Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland, a wrought iron suspension bridge designed by Captain Samuel Brown.

He suggested, from the safety of Berwick upon Tweed, that the Scots could be vanquished by a modest English force attacking from north and south in a pincer movement.

They later proceeded by ship to Scotland, where Margaret gained troops and other aid for the Lancastrian cause from the Queen and Regent, Mary of Guelders, in return for the surrender of the town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed.

Two camp grounds ( car / camper and walk-in tent camping only ) and plentiful picnic areas, some with shelters, water and composting toilets, are available at various points in the rainforest adjacent to the road, and one picnic spot at Blackbutts Lookout, offers spectacular scenic views to Mount Warning, and of the Tweed Valley, an erosion caldera which, while broken by the sea on its eastern flank, is considered larger in size than the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania.

In the first episode, Bonaduce helped Simmons ' partner Shannon Tweed to determine if a lie detector could possibly be defeated by Simmons.

Crop marks from aerial photographs of the 1950s suggest the existence of a semi-permanent Roman marching camp on the flood plain by the river Tweed at Toll Wood ( near Traquair ) and at nearby Eshiels.

Change Your Surname " as well as " Weed in the Tweed " however Felix hopes to reach fame through his new star studded band ' Funk Off and Die ', conducted by Russel Keable.

One of the biggest urban scandals of the post-Civil War era was the corruption and bribery case of Tammany boss William M. Tweed in 1871 that was uncovered by newspapers.

James's body was taken first to Berwick on Tweed, where according to Hall's Chronicle, it was viewed by the captured Scottish courtiers William Scott and John Forman who acknowledged it was the King's.

A small party of Scots led by Sir William Keith managed with some difficulty to make their way across the ruins of the old bridge to the northern bank of the Tweed.

As Surveyor General, John Oxley, made a close examination of the Tweed River and Port Curtis, and sources connected that investigation, principally the manuscript journal kept by Oxley, and the published ‘ Narrative ’ of John Uniaeke, who accompanied Oxley, From Oxley ’ s notebook in the Archives Office of New South Wales ( location 2 / 8093 ) the following extract is taken from the entry for 31 October 1823:

“ The Tweed is a river communicating with the sea by a bar, on which there is twelve feet of water, it is situated about a mile and a half to the north of a small island off Point Danger, which lies in latitude 28 ° 8 '” ( King Narrative of a Survey, v. 2, p. 257 )

The River Clarance, or more properly the Tweed, discovered by Mr. Oxley, but not explored, is in lat.