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    The Berwick-on-Tweed Act 1836 (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 103; long title An Act to make temporary Provision for the Boundaries of certain Boroughs) was an act of...
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    the Tweed on the east. Its estuary and the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed were a late annexation by England. The Union Chain Bridge spanning the Tweed between...
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    needed] Municipal Corporations Act Berwick-upon-Tweed was de jure "not in any county" until the Berwick-on-Tweed Act 1836 made it a county of itself; before...
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    (23.3 km)), was opened on 1 March 1847, and on 29 March the northern section from Tweedmouth (south of the Tweed near Berwick) to Chathill, (19+3⁄4-mile...
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    lxxxiii) Dundee Harbour Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. cxix) Bristol Riots Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4. lxxxviii) River Tweed Fisheries Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 &...
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  • known) were: County of the Borough and Town of Berwick upon Tweed (s.6 of the Berwick-on-Tweed Act 1836, except that the Parliamentary constituency was...
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  • Berwick-upon-Tweed had existed from 1836 to 1974, just covering the town itself. Under the Local Government Act 1972 a much larger borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed...
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    The Marriage Act 1836 (6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 85), or the Act for Marriages in England 1836, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that legalised...
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    was a branch of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, departing from a junction at Tweedmouth, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, and initially terminating at Sprouston...
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  • company. It built and opened its line between Edinburgh and Berwick (later Berwick on Tweed) and formed part of the first rail link between Edinburgh and...
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  • includes Wales and Berwick-upon-Tweed, though those places were little involved in colonial trade. The mercantile purpose of the act was to make England...
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    disorder and anarchy on the border. He had contracted a treaty for three years of peace with England on 10 October 1525 at Berwick upon Tweed, but was unable...
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    Diocese of Durham (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    there was one suffragan Bishop of Berwick. Since 1572, the see has remained in abeyance (until 2016), and Berwick-upon-Tweed is now in Newcastle diocese. After...
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    Mordington (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders region. It is five miles from Berwick-upon-Tweed and borders Northumberland to the east, and south (where the boundary...
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    Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    May 2019. "House of Commons: Bedford to Berwick upon Tweed". leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2017...
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  • Tweedmouth on the East Coast Main Line via seven intermediate stations to Kelso. Plans for a horse drawn railway between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Kelso were...
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    High Level Bridge, River Tyne (category Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata)
    had got its Act of Parliament the previous year to build as far south as Berwick (later known as Berwick-upon-Tweed. Now Hudson was intent on capturing...
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  • maintained in some of the historic counties corporate. Sheriff of Berwick-upon-Tweed Sheriff of Canterbury Sheriff of Chester Sheriff of Gloucester Sheriff...
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    when Northumberland was divided into four single member divisions: Berwick-upon-Tweed, Hexham, Tyneside and Wansbeck. 1832–1886: The Wards of Tynedale and...
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    Scremerston (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Northumberland, England. The village lies on the North Sea coast just under 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and 4.3 miles (7 km) from the Anglo-Scottish...
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    Edinburgh Waverley railway station (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Bridge station was opened on 22 June 1846 by the North British Railway as the terminus for its line from Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Edinburgh and Glasgow...
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    of King James he travelled regularly from London to Edinburgh via Berwick-upon-Tweed. Home was the third son of Sir Alexander Home of Manderston, Berwickshire...
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  • to find safety with their tutor at Berwick-upon-Tweed, where John Carey noted that their two sisters who waited on the queen were sent from court. Carey...
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    Imperial units (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    apothecaries' weights and measures were regulated "in England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed" by the London College of Physicians, and in Ireland by the Dublin...
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    1862 act also gave the NBR running rights over the N&CR between Hexham and Newcastle, the NER gaining reciprocal rights over the NBR between Berwick-upon-Tweed...
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    William Eure, 1st Baron Eure (category Garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed)
    The surname is often written as "Evers". William was Governor of Berwick upon Tweed in 1539, Commander in the North in 1542, Warden of the Eastern March...
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    Shires of Scotland (category No local image but image on Wikidata)
    Bailieries of Carrick, Cunninghame and Kyle) Banff Berwick (Dependent on the governor of Berwick Castle) Clackmannan Cromarty (Had been formed by 1266...
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    held in the castle at Berwick-upon-Tweed, judgment was given in favour of John Balliol having the strongest claim in law based on being senior in genealogical...
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    Newcastle railway station (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Edinburgh Waverley with one being non-stop, and the other calling at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Extra services at peak times to Edinburgh also call at Morpeth, Alnmouth...
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    Government Act 1972 (cap. 70). The Interpretation Act 1978 (cap. 30) provides that before 1 April 1974, "a reference to England includes Berwick-upon-Tweed and...
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