Tweed
Tweed is a rough, woollen fabric, of a soft, open, flexible texture, resembling cheviot or homespun, but more closely woven.
Tweed is a rough, woollen fabric, of a soft, open, flexible texture, resembling cheviot or homespun, but more closely woven. It is usually woven with a plain weave, twill or herringbone structure. Colour effects in the yarn may be obtained by mixing dyed wool before it is spun.
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Worth seeing in and around Tweed
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Stoco Lake
Stoco Lake is a lake in the Lake Ontario drainage basin in Tweed, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. The lake is about 5.4 kilometres long and 2.5 kilometres wide, and lies at an elevation of approximately 138 metres.
2.2 km · lake in Tweed, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Marble Arts Centre
Gallery, studio, exhibition space for artists and occasional wedding venue in 125-seat former Marble Church of Bridgewater (1864-2004), possibly the only white marble church built in Canada.
- 02Tweed & Area Heritage Centre
Victorian-era Houston House (1897) and annex includes local arts and crafts galleries, an information bureau, museum, reference room and archives.
From Wikivoyage: Tweed, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Bon Echo Provincial Park
Hiking trails, canoeing, boat tours on Mazinaw Lake, RV and car camping, backcountry, and roofed accommodations.
- 02O'Hara Sugar Maples
Sugar house, maple butter and maple candy store, sugar bush.
- 03Palmateer Farms Maple Sugar Bush
Seasonal maple sugar cabin, annual pancake breakfast in April, horse wagon rides.
- 04Poplars Golf Club
189 East Hungerford Rd, toll-free: +1-877-478-GOLF (4653).
- 05Tweed Memorial Park
Public boat launch, picnic shelter and pavilion, playground, ball diamond and beach.
- 06Tyendinaga Cavern and Caves
2623 Harmony Road, Tyendinaga (west of Shannonville Road),.
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Where to eat
- 01Gateway Restaurant
Fully licensed, private banquet room seats 30.
- 02Pizza Latina
244 Victoria St N,.
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Getting to Tweed
- Airports
- Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester (ROC), 153 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 160 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 180 km
- Ottawa → Tweed164 km · quickest by road, 3h 38m · C$24–32
- Hamilton → Tweed71 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · NZ$12–16
- Toronto → Tweed187 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · C$27–36
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Tweed
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tweed. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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