Cheviot Hills estate had been named by its original lease holder, John Scott Taverhill, after his home country, the Cheviot Hills straddling the Anglo-Scottish border.
State Highway 1 follows the river for part of its route between Cheviot and Waipara.
Haddington: Knox Academy; Stevenson Bridge; Cheviot House Mill; Sports Centre; Waterloo Bridge B6368; St. Mary's Church; Nungate Bridge; Victoria Bridge
It consists of the committee areas of Eildon, Cheviot and Teviot and Liddesdale (the former (1975—1996) local government districts of Roxburgh and Ettrick and Lauderdale) within the Scottish Borders council area.
SS Cheviot was an iron screw steamer which was wrecked near Point Nepean in Victoria, Australia in 1887, with the loss of 35 lives.