Old photograph of cottages and houses in Waterbeck near Ecclefechan, Scotland. This Scottish village in Annandale is located to the West of the Kirtle Water. Waterbeck is now a small, rural village in the south-west of Scotland. It has not always been that way. In the early medieval period when the area was close to the Debatable Lands, the Bell family, known as the 'bloody Bells', were involved in the Border feuds, marauding and killing. During the eighteenth century, Waterbeck grew to be a thriving village supporting numerous trades, as well as being surrounded by working farms and other settlements. In its time it rose to become one of the most important centres for bacon curing and agricultural seed production in Scotland, due to the enterprise of the Carlyle family.
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