Abbotsford House Trust for Scotland objected. Sir Walter Scott rescued the "jougs" from Threave Castle in Dumfries and Galloway and attached them to the castellated gateway he built at Abbotsford. Tweedbank railway station is located near to Abbotsford House. Abbotsford gave its name to the Abbotsford Club, founded by William Barclay Turnbull in 1833 or 1834 in Scott's honour, and a successor to the Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs. It was a text publication society, which existed to print and publish historical works connected with Scott's writings. Its publications extended from 1835 to 1864. In 2012, a new Visitor Centre opened at Abbotsford
Tweed, Ontario Municipality. The total 2004 property assessment for the Municipality of Tweed was $309,000,000. Its composition was 84% residential, 7% farm, 6% commercial and industrial, and 3% other categories. Stoco Lake, a part of the Moira River system which borders the town of Tweed, is home to a popular and uncommon sport-fish, the muskellunge or Muskie ("Esox masquinongy"). The Black River joins the Moira River near the Village of Tweed. The Canadian Pacific Railway's Havelock Subdivision passed through Tweed to Glen Tay and Smith Falls from the 1880s until the line was abandoned from Glen Tay to Tweed in 1973 then