Wark on Tweed

Wark
Wark
	Wark on Tweed with the ruins; of the castle behind
	Wark Location within Northumberland
OS grid reference	NT826386
Unitary authority	Northumberland;
Ceremonial county	Northumberland;
Region	North East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CORNHILL-ON-TWEED
Postcode district	TD12
Dialling code	01890
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Northumberland
Ambulance	North East
UK Parliament	Berwick;
	List of places UK England Northumberland 55°38′28″N 2°16′38″W / 55.6410°N 2.2771°W

Wark or Wark on Tweed is a village in the English county of Northumberland. It lies about 15 mi (24 km) south west of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

It is on the south bank of the River Tweed, which marks the border between England and Scotland.^[1]

Landmarks

The ruins of Wark on Tweed Castle, originally an early 12th-century motte-and-bailey, lie at the west end of the village.

The Ba Green

The border between Scotland and England runs down the middle of the River Tweed, but between the villages of Wark and Cornhill, the Scottish border comes south of the river to enclose a small riverside meadow around 2 acres (0.8 hectares) to 3 acres (1.2 hectares). This piece of land is known as the Ba Green. It is said locally that every year the men of Coldstream (to the north of the river) would play mob football with the men of Wark at ba, and the winning side would claim the Ba Green for their country. As Coldstream grew to have a larger population than Wark, the Coldstream men always defeated the Wark men at the game, so the land became a permanent part of Scotland.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Notable people

Robert Story (poet), 1795-1860

References

^ "Berwickshire Sheet XXIX.SW (includes: Coldstream)". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
^ Crofton, Ian (2012). A dictionary of Scottish phrase and fable. Edinburgh: Birlinn. p. 25. ISBN 9781841589770.
^ Moffat, Alistair (1 July 2011). The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers. Birlinn. ISBN 9780857901156.
^ "(Showing Scottish border south of the Tweed) - Berwickshire Sheet XXIX.SW (includes: Coldstream) -". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

External links

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[1] "Berwickshire Sheet XXIX.SW (includes: Coldstream)". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

[2] Crofton, Ian (2012). A dictionary of Scottish phrase and fable. Edinburgh: Birlinn. p. 25. ISBN 9781841589770.

[3] Moffat, Alistair (1 July 2011). The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers. Birlinn. ISBN 9780857901156.

[4] "(Showing Scottish border south of the Tweed) - Berwickshire Sheet XXIX.SW (includes: Coldstream) -". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 30 June 2018.

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