River Tyne, Scotland

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The River Tyne in Scotland is a river which rises in the Moorfoot Hills in Midlothian near Tynehead to the south of Edinburgh, at the junction of the B6458 and the B6367.

It runs for 30 miles in a north-eastern direction, through, or near to:

Samuelston
Grants' Braes Bridge on B6368
Haddington - Victoria Bridge, Nungate Bridge, Stevenson Bridge, Waterloo Bridge
Abbey Bridge (south of Barnes Castle)
Hailes Castle
East Linton
Prestonkirk Parish Church
Preston Mill
Phantassie and Phantassie Doocot
Tyninghame Bridge
Tyninghame House
Mosshouse Point
Hedderwick Sands

It empties into the North Sea at Tyninghame near Belhaven and Dunbar, at a bay named Tyne Mouth.

The Tyne has many tributaries, but it is mainly a confluence between the Tyne Water and Birns Water, 2 km east of Easter Pencaitland and Spilmersford Bridge on the B6355. It rises in the Moorfoot Hills and runs for 30 miles

There are three reservoirs, the largest is Whiteadder Reservoir.

The East Lothian Angling Association controls 25 miles of the Tyne and its feeder burns. There is mainly brown trout, but also sea trout.