Liddesdale

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historic district valley

Liddesdale is a valley and historic border district in the Scottish Borders, long known as a stronghold of the powerful Clan Douglas and a center of Border Reiver activity.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic district ⓘ
valley ⓘ
associatedWithEvent Anglo-Scottish border wars ⓘ
associatedWithGroup Border Reiver families ⓘ
Border clans ⓘ
borders Dumfriesshire NERFINISHED ⓘ
England ⓘ
Roxburghshire NERFINISHED ⓘ
containsCastle Hermitage Castle ⓘ
containsSettlement Hermitage ⓘ
Kershopefoot ⓘ
Newcastleton ⓘ
country Scotland ⓘ
drainageBasin River Esk ⓘ
hasEconomicActivity forestry ⓘ
sheep farming ⓘ
hasNotableLandscapeFeature Liddel Water ⓘ
surface form: Liddel Water valley
hasNotableStructure Hermitage Castle ⓘ
hasTransportRoute B6399 road ⓘ
former Border Union Railway ⓘ
historicalLegalStatus march lordship ⓘ
historicallyControlledBy Buccleuch family ⓘ
Clan Douglas ⓘ
Earl of Douglas ⓘ
historicalRegion Borders ⓘ
historicalRole center of raiding on Anglo-Scottish border ⓘ
refuge for Border Reivers ⓘ
knownFor Border Reivers ⓘ
Clan Douglas stronghold ⓘ
languageHistoricallySpoken English ⓘ
Scots ⓘ
locatedIn Scottish Borders ⓘ
Southern Uplands ⓘ
nearbyRegion Eskdale ⓘ
Teviotdale ⓘ
partOf Scottish Borders ⓘ
surface form: Scottish Marches
presentDayCouncilArea Scottish Borders council area ⓘ
regionType border district ⓘ
timePeriodOfProminence 16th century ⓘ
Late Middle Ages ⓘ
traditionalProvince Roxburghshire NERFINISHED ⓘ
traversedBy Liddel Water ⓘ
usedFor cattle raiding ⓘ
cross-border raids ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hermitage Castle → locatedIn → Liddesdale ⓘ