Liddel Water
Liddel Water is a river running through southern Scotland and northern England, for much of its course forming the border between the two countries, and was formerly one of the boundaries of the Debatable Lands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Scottish Borders and Dumries and Galloway, Scotland; and Cumbria, England, UK, tributary of the River Esk
- Also known as: “Liddel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castra Exploratorum and Netherby Hall.
Castra Exploratorum
Archaeological site
Photo: Simon Ledingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castra Exploratorum was a Roman fort and associated substantial civil settlement now in the grounds of Netherby Hall, Cumbria. It was first built by Agricola during his conquest of the north in around 80 AD.
Coop House
Chalet
Photo: Kognos, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Coop House, near Netherby in Cumbria, England, is a small building by the River Esk, erected about 1772 as part of a salmon fishery project, and restored in the 1990s by the Landmark Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canonbie and Rowanburn.
Canonbie
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Canonbie is a small village in Dumfriesshire within the local authority area of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, 6 miles south of Langholm and 2 miles north of the Anglo-Scottish border. Canonbie is situated 2 miles north of Liddel Water.
Rowanburn
Village
Photo: Brian Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rowanburn is a hamlet in Eskdale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Located near Canonbie, it sits around 5 miles south-east of Langholm and about a mile from the Anglo-Scottish border. Rowanburn is situated 2½ miles north of Liddel Water.
Longtown
Town
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longtown is a market town in Cumbria, but in the historic county of Cumberland, England, just south of the Scottish Border. It has a sheep market which was at the centre of the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth crisis. Longtown is situated 3 miles south of Liddel Water.
Liddel Water
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Liddel Water from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Liddel Water” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Liddel Water”
- German: “Liddel Water”
- Scots: “Liddel Watter”
- Swedish: “Liddel Water”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Liddell Strength Castle and Easton Hills.
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