{{Short description|River in Scottish Borders, Scotland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=March 2025}} [[File:The Borthwick Water - geograph.org.uk - 235774.jpg|thumb|Borthwick Water near Branxholme ]] {{More footnotes needed|date=August 2021}} The '''Borthwick Water''' ''(Border Scots: Borthwick Witter)'' is a river in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and a tributary of the River Teviot.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Munro |first1=David M. |last2=Gittings |first2=Bruce |last3=Munro |first3=David |title=Scotland: an encyclopedia of places & landscape |date=2006 |publisher=Collins |location=Glasgow |isbn=9780004724669 |page=80}}</ref>
The Aithouse Burn, the Howpasley Burn, and the Northhope Burn (amongst others) are some of the feeder burns for what becomes the Borthwick Water at Craik, in the heart of the Craik Forest. The Water continues via Meadshaw, Muselee, and Deanburnhaugh, to Burnfoot and Roberton until it joins the Teviot at Borthaugh and Martinshouse, at the end of the B711, and less than 2 miles from the centre of Hawick.
Places of interest nearby are the Alemoor Loch reservoir and Borthaugh Hill, as well as the villages of Borthwickshiels, Branxholme, Broadhaugh, and Buccleuch.
==See also== *List of places in the Scottish Borders *List of places in Scotland
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|Borthwick Water}} *[http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=54199 RCAHMS record for Borthwick Wa'as, St. Mary's Chapel and Graveyard] *[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1816504 GEOGRAPH: The Borthwick Water] *[http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-593-036-C SCRAN image: The Duke of Buccleuch's Hunt and Borthwick Water Foxhounds Joint Meet]
==Sources== *''Borthwick Water: two centuries of life in the parish of Roberton'' by Kathleen W. Stewart, published 1991 *''Reminiscences of Borthwick Water sixty years ago'' by George Scott, 1909 transactions
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