Borthwick

Human settlement in Scotland

55°49′30″N 3°00′40″W / 55.825°N 3.011°W / 55.825; -3.011

Borthwick is a hamlet, parish and stream in Midlothian, Scotland. The parish includes the 15th century Borthwick Castle, which is to the east of the village and the villages of Gorebridge and North Middleton.^[1]^[2] Nearby is Newtongrange in the parish of Newbattle.^[3]

The civil parish has an area of 9375 acres ^[1] and a population of 2,841 (in 2011).^[4]

Notable residents

Very Rev Thomas Turnbull was minister of the parish from 1734 to 1786.

Borthwick was the birthplace of the historian William Robertson.

^ ^a ^b Gazetteer of Scotland, publ. by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Article on Borthwick. Places are presented alphabetically.
^ Survey Gazetteer of the British Isles, Topographical, Statistical and Commercial, ed. by J.G. Bartholomew, publ. George Newnes, London, 1904. Article on Borthwick.
^ Gazetteer of Scotland, 2nd edition, by W. Groome, publ. 1896. Article on Newtongrange.
^ Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved March 2016. See “Standard Outputs”, Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish 1930.