Editing Coldstream (section)

== The Ba Green ==
The [[Anglo-Scottish border|border between Scotland and England]] runs down the middle of the River Tweed, however between the villages of [[Wark on Tweed|Wark]] and [[Cornhill-on-Tweed|Cornhill]] the Scottish border comes south of the river to enclose a small riverside meadow of approximately 2 to 3 acres (or about a hectare). This piece of land is known as the Ba Green. It is said locally that every year the men of Coldstream would play the men of Wark (south of the river) at [[Ba game|ba]], and the winning side would claim the Ba Green for their country. As Coldstream grew to have a larger population than Wark, the men of Coldstream always defeated those of Wark at the game, and so the land became a permanent part of Scotland.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A dictionary of Scottish phrase and fable|last=Crofton|first=Ian|publisher=Birlinn|year=2012|isbn=9781841589770|location=Edinburgh|pages=25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y8y8BQAAQBAJ&q=ba+green+scotland+wark+coldstream&pg=PT94|title=The Reivers: The Story of the Border Reivers|last=Moffat|first=Alistair|date=2011-07-01|publisher=Birlinn|isbn=9780857901156|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/75497611#zoom=3&lat=3758&lon=3490&layers=BT|title=(Showing Scottish border south of the Tweed) - Berwickshire Sheet XXIX.SW (includes: Coldstream) -|website=[[National Library of Scotland]]|language=en|access-date=2018-06-30}}</ref>