Caddonfoot ( gd, Bun Chadain) is a village on the River Tweed, in the

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders ( sco, the Mairches, 'the Marches'; gd, Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, Midlothian, South Lanarkshire, West Lothi ...

area of Scotland, on the A707, near Galashiels. The village is at the mouth of the

Caddon Water The Caddon Water ( gd, Cadan) is a small river by the village of Caddonfoot, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It rises on Windlestraw Law, four miles north of Innerleithen, and flows through the Stantling Craig Reservoir. It joins the ri ...

Other places nearby include Boleside,

Broadmeadows, Scottish Borders Broadmeadows is a village in the Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders ( sco, the Mairches, 'the Marches'; gd, Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lo ...

Buckholm Buckholm is a farm near to the A7, in the Scottish Borders, Galashiels area of Scotland. Places nearby include Abbotsford, the Bow Castle Broch, Clovenfords, Darnick, Eildon, the Gala Water, the Lugate Water, and Stow. Buckholm Tower was b ...

Clovenfords Clovenfords is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, north of the hamlet (place), hamlet of Caddonfoot and west of the town Galashiels. The village sits on undulating grasslands and surrounding rolling hills. The 2011 census gave i ...

, Darnick, Gattonside, Innerleithen, Lindean,

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, Selkirk, Stow, Traquair, Tweedbank, Yarrow. The church was erected in 1861 and became the parochial church of the new parish of Caddonfoot in 1870. The church was enlarged in 1875 and in the same year that the village school was rebuilt.Ordnance Gazetteer, by Francis Groome, publ.1896, article on Caddonfoot The school closed in 2012 as a new building was opened in

. Prior to 1898 Caddonfoot lay within the civil parish of Stow, on its border with Galashiels. Stow parish was mainly in

Midlothian Midlothian (; gd, Meadhan Lodainn) is a historic county, registration county, lieutenancy area and one of 32 council areas of Scotland used for local government. Midlothian lies in the east-central Lowlands, bordering the City of Edinburgh, ...

(Edinburghshire) but the southern portion, mainly the valley of

was in Selkirkshire. Then in December 1898 a new civil parish of Caddonfoot was erected consisting of the portion of the civil parish of Stow within Selkirkshire, and the portions of the civil parishes of Selkirk, Galashiels, and Yarrow, situated within the ecclesiastical parish of Caddonfoot. The civil parish includes

and

Caddonlee Caddonlee is a farm in the village of Clovenfords in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, by the Caddon Water, near Caddonfoot where Caddon Water meets the Tweed . The nearest town is Galashiels. On the farm are traces of an auxiliary Roman for ...

and the Clovenfords and District Community Council serves roughly the same area. Caddonfoot War Memorial stands in the parish churchyard, and was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Robert Lorimer The civil parish has an area of 19,252 acres and a population of 912 (in 2011). (See “Standard Outputs”, Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish 1930)Acreage from Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Figures for each parish, which are presented alphabetically with other places

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RCAHMS record for CaddonfootSCRAN resource for Caddonfoot
Villages in the Scottish Borders Parishes in Selkirkshire {{Borders-geo-stub