Wark on Tweed Wark on Tweed Wark on Tweed (usually referred to simply as Wark) is a village in the English county of Northumberland. It lies approximately south west of Berwick-upon-Tweed. It is on the south bank of the River Tweed which marks the border between England and Scotland. The ruins of Wark on Tweed Castle, originally an early 12th century motte-and-bailey, lie at the west end of the village. The border between Scotland and England runs down the middle of the River Tweed, however between the villages of Wark and Cornhill the Scottish border comes south of the river to enclose a
Agriculture in Scotland in the Middle Ages Agriculture in Scotland in the Middle Ages Agriculture in Scotland in the Middle Ages includes all forms of farm production in the modern boundaries of Scotland, between the departure of the Romans from Britain in the fifth century and the establishment of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. Scotland has between a fifth and a sixth of the amount of the arable or good pastoral land of England and Wales, mostly located in the south and east. Heavy rainfall encouraged the spread of acidic blanket peat bog, which with wind and salt spray, made most of the western islands