Ettrick

River in Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders unitary authorities, Scotland, rising in the southwest on Capel Fell at a height of 677 m/2,221 ft, and flowing over 50 km/31 mi northeast before joining the River Tweed 5 km/3 mi below Selkirk. Its main tributary is the River Yarrow.

The course of the Ettrick passes through an area full of literary associations: the novelist and poet James Hogg, known as the ‘Ettrick Shepherd’ was born in Ettrick Forest; and Deloraine, which recalls the hero of Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel 1805, lies in the river's upper reaches, below the village of Buccleuch.

Ettrick

Town in Chesterfield County, east-central Virginia; population (1990) 5,300. It is situated on the Appomattox River across from Petersburg and to the west of Colonial Heights. It is home to the traditionally African-American Virginia State University (1882).