Dreva on Tweed (or simply Dreva) is a hamlet in the

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and Galloway to the south-west, South Lanarkshire to the we ...

. It was historically in Peebles-shire. It is noted for the historical presence of a

Peel tower Peel towers (also spelt pele) are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the England, English and Scotland, Scottish Border country, borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, mainly between the mid-14th century and ab ...

Etymology

The name is first attested quite late, in 1649, as ''Draway''. This seems to be a

Cumbric Cumbric is an extinct Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the ''Hen Ogledd'' or "Old North", in Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. It was closely related to Old Welsh and the ot ...

name, perhaps cognate with Welsh ''(y) + tref + ma'' 'the place of the (fortified) farmstead'.Bethany Fox,
The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland
, ''The Heroic Age'', 10 (2007) (appendix at http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html).

References

Villages in the Scottish Borders {{Borders-geo-stub