page_title: List of rivers of Scotland
section_title: South-eastern Scotland
hierarchical_section_title: List of rivers of Scotland / South-eastern Scotland
context_page_description: This list of rivers in Scotland is organised geographically, taken anti-clockwise, from Berwick-upon-Tweed. Tributaries are listed down the page in an upstream direction. indicates a left-bank tributary and indicates a right-bank tributary whilst and indicate left and right forks where a named river is formed from two differently named rivers.
  For simplicity, they are divided here by the coastal section in which the mouth of the river can be found. Those on Scottish islands can be found in a section at the end.
  The Scots have many words for watercourses.
  A "Water" is a smaller river, e.g. Ugie Water, Water of Leith etc. Many Scottish rivers incorporate the name "Water" traditionally.
  A "burn", Scots Gaelic: "allt", used for smaller rivers and larger streams, also once widely used in England, now mostly in placenames especially the north, and sometimes spelled "bourne", e.g. Bournemouth and Ashbourne. In Scotland examples include Coalburn, Bannockburn, Aultmore.
  Abhainn in Gaelic meaning river, which is anglicised as Avon. There is also a similar Brythonic cognate. This sometimes leads to curious 'double' namings of rivers by Anglo-Saxon speakers, such as River Avon and River Afton.
context_section_description: Tweed catchment
  River Tweed
  Whiteadder Water (L)
  Blackadder Water (R)
  Langton Burn (L)
  Monynut Water (L)
  Dye Water (R)
  Bothwell Water (L)
  Faseny Water (R)
  River Till (R) (England only) (is known as River Breamish in upper reaches)
  River Glen (L), (England only)
  Bowmont Water (Ls) (upper reaches in Scotland)
  College Burn (Rs), (England only)
  Wooler Water (L), (England only)
  Carey Burn (Ls) (England only)
  Harthope Burn (Rs) (England only)
  Hetton Burn (R) (England only)
  Lilburn Burn (Ls) (England only)
  River Breamish (Rs) (England only)
  Harelaw Burn (L) (England only)
  Linhope Burn (L) (England only)
  Leet Water (L)
  Eden Water (L)
  River Teviot (R)
  Kale Water (R)
  Oxnam Water (R)
  Jed Water (R)
  Black Burn (R)
  Ale Water (L)
  Rule Water (R)
  Slitrig Water (R)
  Borthwick Water (L)
  Allan Water (R)
  Leader Water (L)
  Boondreigh Water (L)
  Earnscleugh Water (L)
  Darnick Burn (R)
  Gala Water (L)
  Heriot Water (R)
  Ettrick Water (R)
  Yarrow Water (L)
  Megget Water (L) (enters St Mary's Loch)
  Rankle Burn (R)
  Tima Water (R)
  Leithen Water (L)
  Quair Water (R)
  Eddleston Water (L)
  Manor Water (R)
  Lyne Water (L)
  Holms Water (L)
  Biggar Water (L)
  Kingledoors Burn (L)
  Talla Water (R)
  Fruid Water (R)
  Simple coastal catchments
  Eye Water
  Ale Water (L)
  Biel Water
  Tyne catchment
  River Tyne
  Tyne Water (Ls)
  Birns Water (Rs) (Humbie Water)
  Firth of Forth (Estuary)
  (Lothian) Esk catchment
  River Esk, Lothian
  River South Esk (Rs)
  Gore Water (R)
  Dalhousie Burn
  River North Esk (Ls)
  Figgate Burn
  Water of Leith catchment
  Water of Leith
  The Stank
  Almond catchment
  River Almond
  Linhouse Water (R)
  Breich Water (R)
  Gogarburn
  Avon catchment
  River Avon
  Carron catchment
  River Carron
  Bonny Water (R)
  Earl's Burn (L)
caption: The River Tweed at Coldstream
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