Polmood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Polmood is a small settlement in southern Scotland near Tweedsmuir in the Scottish Borders, in the valley of the River Tweed.
Polmood was for many centuries the centre of the Hunter family in the lowlands and the earliest record was a charter dated 1057 to Norman Hunter of Polmood. It was once a Peel tower, part of a chain of beacons running down the Tweed Valley. At the end of the nineteenth century the temporary Talla Railway was built close to Polmont to deliver building materials during the construction of the Talla Reservoir.
The estate was acquired by Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson and Edinburgh businessman and politician who took his baronetcy title from the Peebleshire estate of Polmood which he had acquired before 1916.
Polmood is commemorated in "The Piper of Polmood" a piece based on old Scottish folk-tunes by Victor Babin.
[edit] References
- J. W. Buchan and Rev. H. Paton A History of Peeblesshire 1925-7.
[edit] External links
- Hunter of Polmood
- Geographia
- Michael Forbes Tweedie The History of the Tweedie or Tweedy Family (1902)
 This Scottish Borders location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
