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
River Camlad the border back into England, and flows just east of Chirbury before turning west again, and forms the border (for the second time) between England and Wales. It turns northwest into Wales (for the second time) to join the River Severn to the west of Forden. Early forms include the "Kemelet" (1227), "Kemlet" (1256), "Kelemet" 1274, "Camalet" and "Kenlet" (1577) and Camlet (1612). Ekwall proposes the Welsh "" meaning "a knot" (which is found in other river names) giving a hypothetical Old Welsh "Culmet" then "Cylmet" whence "Kelemet", alternatively "Cym(y)let" from the Old Welsh for "loop". River Camlad The River