Berwickshire

British

/ ˈbɛrɪkˌʃɪə, -ʃə /

noun

(until 1975) a county of SE Scotland: part of the Borders region from 1975 to 1996, now part of Scottish Borders council area

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In recent years, she has added 11km to her farm in Berwickshire.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025

The route followed the east coast through Berwickshire, the Borders and East Lothian before reaching the finish at the Ross Bandstand in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025

The research was conducted around five shipwrecks off the Berwickshire coast, which are all thought to have sunk in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2023

The trade minister, Penny Mordaunt, has the backing of the MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, John Lamont - who until recently was a parliamentary aide to the foreign secretary, Liz Truss.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2022

He studied medicine, but found it not to his liking and turned instead to farming, which he followed in a relaxed and scientific way on the family estate in Berwickshire.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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