Deadwater

deadwater English Proper noun en suburb town/Bordon in par/Whitehill dist/East Hampshire co/Hampshire cc/England OS grid ref SU8035. en small settlement par/Kielder co/Northumberland cc/England, on the border with Scotland OS grid ref NY6096. en 1955 September H. A. Vallance The Border Counties Line Railway Magazine 594 The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.