The River Tweed - Kelso to Berwick Upon Tweed

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart follow the river Tweed from Kelso to Berwick Upon Tweed.

In Kelso, they visit Floor Castle and Gardens in the company of Matt Thomson and Simon McManus. Jonathan Garrett shows Mark round the town's racecourse

In Coldstream, John Elliot of the local historical society tells the story of one of the earliest bridges built across the Tweed into England, Mark delves into the history of the Coldstream Guards and Rachel hears about a marriage house with a past to rival Gretna Green

The Battle of Flodden took place in 1513 close to the Tweed. In Branxton, Rachel discovers the so called smallest visitor centre in the world which commemorates the battle whilst Mark visits the battlefield with Clive Hallam Baker to find out why the Scots suffered such a loss

The Union Chain Bridge is a suspension bridge which has linked Scotland and England for over 200 years making it the oldest vehicle suspension bridge in the world. Martha Andrews of the Friends of the Union Chain Bridge tells of its recent restoration

Willie Robson and his family have been producing honey from the Chain Bridge Honey Farm for over 75 years. Rachel meets Willie and his daughter Frances to find out why they are both so enthusiastic about bees

Linda Bankier is the Bewick Upon Tweed Archivist. She takes Mark and Rachel on a tour of the historic burgh including the walls surrounding the town and the town hall where a jail for debtors and criminals was situated

Mark and Rachel go aboard the Border Belle with David Thomson at the helm for a boat trip to view Berwick Upon Tweed from a different perspective. They go under the three iconic bridges of the town - the Berwick Bridge, the Royal Tweed Bridge and the Royal Border Bridge

Transcript

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:06.6	Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,
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0:18.7	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:22.8	This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio
0:28.4	Scotland.
0:33.5	Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.
0:35.9	As you probably know, we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out Addoors.
0:42.2	And this week we've been on our travels to finish our journey along the river Tweed from source to sea.
0:48.8	And this trip takes us from Kelso to Berwick-upon Tweed.
0:56.8	Well, the sun was shining earlier this morning,
0:59.1	but it is considerably, considerably colder now.
1:03.4	There's a gay cold wind blowing down the River Tweed.
1:06.7	Out there in the water, there is a notter.
1:09.1	Clearly we're not on our usual stance at the car park in Beach Grove in Aberdeen.
1:13.3	We're standing beside the River Tweed in Kelso, but I saw the head in it just ducked down there.
1:17.5	Keep an eye in that area and see if it comes back up again.
1:19.9	It's not the only wildlife here.
1:21.8	You've got sand martens, you've got swans, you've got geese, you've got ducks, you've got all sorts of things. I just spotted the otter actually. All right.
1:28.3	So many birds and they keep getting closer to us.
1:30.3	I think they're optimistically hoping that we've got some food for them.
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