Anglo-Scottish border its hesitation over whether it is part of Scotland or England. Berwickshire is in Scotland while the town is in England, although both Berwick and the lands up to the Firth of Forth belonged to the Kingdom of Northumbria in the Early Middle Ages. The town changed hands more than a dozen times before being finally taken by the English in 1482. In the 1950s the artist Wendy Wood moved the border signs south to the middle of the River Tweed as a protest. In 2008 SNP MSP Christine Grahame made calls in the Scottish Parliament for Berwick to become
Trout River Border Crossing accept entries of merchandise to collect duties, and to enforce the various provisions of the customs and navigation laws'. This means that the border stations of Fort Covington and Churubusco are facilities of the Trout River Port of Entry. There are several buildings near this crossing that were built prior to the establishment of the US-Canada border in 1842. These include a former duty-free shop and two residences. The Trout River Border Inspection Station is one of seven existing border inspection stations built on the New York - Quebec border between 1931 and 1934. In 2014 it, along with others