Altrieve

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Altrive, a stream and a farmstead in Yarrow parish, Selkirkshire. The former rises in the two head-streams of Altrive Lake and Altrive Burn, on the declivities of the Wiss (1932 feet) and Peat Law (1737), and runs about 3½ miles NNE to the Yarrow river, at a point 2 miles ENE of the foot of St Mary's Loch. The farmstead stands upon the stream's left bank, ¼ mile above its mouth, and was the home of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, from 1814 down to his death, 21 Nov. 1835. He held it of the Duke of Buccleuch at a nominal rent, and had, said Allan Cunningham, ' the finest trout in the Yarrow, the finest lambs on its braes, the finest grouse on its hills, and as good as a sma' still besides. '

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