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
The Tweed Daily with W.T.K Baird as publisher. On 1 November 1986, the Tweed Newspaper Company commenced publication of the "Tweed and Gold Coast Daily News", which split into the "Tweed Daily News" and the "Gold Coast News" in 1989. The "Tweed Daily News" changed its name to the "Daily News" in 1993, then to the "Tweed Daily News" in 2007. In 2011 it changed back to the "Daily News", also published as the "Daily News: Tweed, Murwillumbah and Southern Gold Coast". In 2014, the name changed to the "Tweed Daily News" and it became available online. This paper has been digitised as