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Coldstream

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Coldstream

Town and former burgh in Scottish Borders unitary authority, Scotland, on the River Tweed, 21 km/13 mi southwest of Berwick-upon-Tweed; population (2001) 1,800. The river is spanned by an elegant five-arched bridge built in the mid-1760s by John Smeaton, England's first civil engineer.

The Coldstream Guards were founded here in 1660. The town was once, like Gretna Green, a refuge for runaway couples.

The nearby ford of the Tweed was a frequent crossing point for Scottish and English armies. Flodden's battlefield lies 3 km/2 mi to the southeast, where the Scots under James IV were heavily defeated by the Earl of Surrey's army in 1513.



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As to Monk, if he had had to reflect, or if he did reflect, it must have been after a sad fashion, for history relates -- and that modest dame, it is well known, never lies -- history relates, that the day of his arrival at Coldstream search was made in vain throughout the place for a single sheep.
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