| Wark | |
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 Wark on Tweed with the ruins of thecastle behind | |
  Wark Location withinNorthumberland | |
| OS grid reference | NT826386 |
| Unitary authority | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CORNHILL-ON-TWEED |
| Postcode district | TD12 |
| Dialling code | 01890 |
| Police | Northumbria |
| Fire | Northumberland |
| Ambulance | North East |
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Wark orWark on Tweed is a village in theEnglish county ofNorthumberland. It lies about 15 mi (24 km) south west ofBerwick-upon-Tweed.
It is on the south bank of theRiver Tweed, which marks the border between England andScotland.[1]
The ruins ofWark on Tweed Castle, originally an early 12th-centurymotte-and-bailey, lie at the west end of the village.
Theborder between Scotland and England runs down the middle of the River Tweed, but between the villages of Wark andCornhill, the Scottish border comes south of the river to enclose a small riverside meadow around 2 acres (0.8 hectares) to 3 acres (1.2 hectares). This piece of land is known as the Ba Green. It is said locally that every year the men ofColdstream (to the north of the river) would playmob football with the men of Wark atba, and the winning side would claim the Ba Green for their country. As Coldstream grew to have a larger population than Wark, the Coldstream men always defeated the Wark men at the game, so the land became a permanent part of Scotland.[2][3][4]
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