Quair Water
The Quair Water is a tributary of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Its name is related to Traquair.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Traquair House and Robert Smail’s Printing Works, 5, 7 And 9 High Street, Innerleithen.
Traquair House
Photo: marsroverdriver, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Traquair House, approximately 7 miles southeast of Peebles, is claimed to be the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland. Whilst not strictly a castle, it is built in the style of a fortified mansion.
Robert Smail’s Printing Works, 5, 7 And 9 High Street, Innerleithen
Museum
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Robert Smail’s Printing Works, 5, 7 And 9 High Street, Innerleithen is a museum.
Cardrona Forest
Forest
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The Cardrona Forest is a forest in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on in Tweed Valley, near Peebles. A nearby forest is Glentress Forest. The forest contains 2,000 years of Scottish history, and is home to ruins. Cardrona Forest is situated 2½ miles northwest of Quair Water.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Traquair and Innerleithen.
Traquair
Village
Photo: Jimmydenham, Public domain.
Traquair is a small village and civil parish in the Scottish Borders; until 1975 it was in the county of Peeblesshire. The village is situated on the B709 road 2.0 miles south of Innerleithen at grid reference NT330346.
Innerleithen
Town
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Innerleithen is a civil parish and a small town in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scottish Borders. It was formerly in the historic county of Peeblesshire or Tweeddale.
Walkerburn
Village
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Walkerburn is a small village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the A72 about 8 miles from Peebles and 10 miles from Galashiels. It was founded in 1854 to house the workers for the tweed mills owned by the Ballantyne family. Walkerburn is situated 2½ miles northeast of Quair Water.
Quair Water
- Type: Stream
- Description: watercourse in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK, tributary of the River Tweed at Traquair
- Categories: watercourse and body of water
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Quair Water” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Quair Water”
- Dutch: “Quair Water”
- Swedish: “Quair Water”
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