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Towns, valleys and border crossings.
Browse the towns, valleys and crossings that shape the wider Anglo-Scottish Borderlands, from the modern Scottish Borders into northern England and the western Marches.
Central Scottish Borders
GalashielsTextiles, industry, the Borders Railway and the meeting point of the Gala and Tweed valleys.Open place archive SelkirkRoyal burgh history, Common Riding traditions and the industrial story of the Ettrick valley.Open place archive MelroseMelrose Abbey, the Eildon Hills, Trimontium and the landscape of Thomas the Rhymer.Open place archive St BoswellsA village on the Tweed with abbey country, literary connections and access to the Borders landscape.Open place archive EarlstonA Berwickshire town associated with Thomas the Rhymer and the routes through the Leader valley.Open place archive ClovenfordsA small Caddon valley settlement with farming, railway and industrial-era stories close to Galashiels.Open place archive
Roxburghshire
HawickA manufacturing town shaped by knitwear, the River Teviot and the long-running Common Riding.Open place archive JedburghAn abbey town of medieval politics, border conflict and the Jed valley.Open place archive KelsoA market and abbey town at the meeting of the Tweed and Teviot, close to the old March routes.Open place archive DenholmA village in the Teviot valley with connections to farming, mills and the surrounding reiver country.Open place archive NewcastletonA planned nineteenth-century village in Liddesdale, surrounded by forest, river and border history.Open place archive YetholmThe Kirk Yetholm and Town Yetholm communities in the hills of the old Middle March.Open place archive
Peeblesshire & Tweeddale
PeeblesA royal burgh on the Tweed with castle, church, wall, festival and river stories.Open place archive InnerleithenA Tweedside town of spa history, mills, cycling and the routes into the Southern Uplands.Open place archive WalkerburnA planned mill village whose built form still records the textile economy of the Upper Tweed.Open place archive CardronaA rural Tweed valley place near old estates, routes, woodland and the approach to Peebles.Open place archive
Berwickshire
DunsA market town beneath the Lammermuirs with castle, civic history and a strong agricultural hinterland.Open place archive ColdstreamA border town on the Tweed associated with the Coldstream Guards and the crossing into England.Open place archive EyemouthA working harbour town with maritime, fishing, smuggling and coastal community history.Open place archive ChirnsideA hill village overlooking the Merse, close to the old roads between Berwick and the inland Borders.Open place archive GreenlawA former county town whose churches, court traditions and village plan reveal Berwickshire’s past.Open place archive LauderA Lauderdale town beneath the Lammermuirs with castle, burgh and routeway stories.Open place archive
Northumberland & the English Border
Berwick-upon-TweedThe walled border town whose fortifications and changing allegiance make the frontier visible.Open place archive WoolerA market town at the foot of the Cheviots, tied to hill routes and the history of the northern March.Open place archive AlnwickA castle town of Percy power, border warfare and the wider Northumberland landscape.Open place archive
Cumberland & the Western Borderlands
Dumfriesshire & the Western March
CanonbieA village on the Esk routes through the old West March, close to castles, churches and reiver country.Open place archive LangholmA town in the Esk valley with textile, music, farming and Border identity woven together.Open place archive GretnaA crossing-place at the western edge of the Borderlands, famous for marriage, transport and movement.Open place archive
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