Talla Water, a troutful rivulet of Tweedsmuir parish, Peeblesshire, rising at an altitude of 2300 feet at a point ½ mile NW of Loch Skene, and running 6½ miles north-westward, till, after a descent of 1500 feet, it falls into the Tweed near Tweedsmuir church. See Gameshope Burn.Ord. Sur., sh. 16, 1864.
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