Carlisle

Follow the Scottish Borders’ lost roads: Dere Street, Minch Moor, packhorses, drovers, the Herring Road, turnpike bridges and the Waverley railway.

Discover Rheged, the lost British kingdom beside the Scottish Borders: Urien, Taliesin, Trusty’s Hill, the Solway and its fall to Northumbrian power.

Explore Degsastan in AD 603: Æthelfrith, Áedán, the possible Borders battlefield and the struggle that helped create the kingdom of Northumbria.

Follow Merlin by the Tweed and Arthur’s northern connections through Drumelzier, Tinnis, Stobo, Stow and the Eildon Hills: a compelling Borders mystery.

In the nineteenth century, William Thomson’s Tweed Vineyards at Clovenfords defied the Scottish climate. Beneath acres of glass, his grapes ripened for export across Britain, carried by rail from Galashiels to London.

For centuries, the post connected the scattered farms and towns of the Scottish Borders. From riders and mail coaches to railways and rural vans, the Post Office became the heartbeat of community life.

The Votadini were an Iron Age tribe of south-east Scotland. They built hillforts on heights like Traprain Law, traded with Rome, and later became the early medieval kingdom of Gododdin.

The Anglo-Scottish border is the product of centuries of tribal claims, Roman lines, medieval warfare, and diplomatic treaties. From Hadrian’s Wall to the Treaty of York, this frontier tells a story of shifting power and persistent identity.

Dive into the brutal 11th century, where William Rufus battled Scottish kings and rebellious lords to control the northern frontier. From Northumbria’s battlegrounds to a king’s death in the New Forest, this was the making of the Anglo-Scottish border.

The graves of Border Reivers are rare, but in this new film we set out to find the final resting place of one of the most notorious of them all — Kinmont Willie Armstrong.

On Friday 17th August, Mark met with Craig and Becci Speers and their family for a special journey into the past — tracing the Armstrong lineage back through the Borderlands.

In the turbulent borderlands of Scotland and England, a search begins for traces of two towering figures — Edward “Longshanks” and William Wallace. From ruined castles to hidden memorials, the landscape still bears witness to their violent clash of empires and ideals.

After the 1603 Union of the Crowns, King James VI/I cracked down on the Border Reivers — arresting, exiling, and executing many to create the peaceful “Middle Shires.

On the trail of legend, a search begins for the lost grave of Kinmont Willie Armstrong — one of the most daring Border Reivers of all time. His burial place remains a mystery wrapped in folklore, rebellion, and ballad.

Armstrong Day Tour from Discover Scottish Borders………

A curious similarity between two statues—one in Galashiels, the other in Carlisle—sets off a journey into the past. The trail leads to the legend of Johnnie Armstrong, the most notorious of all the Border Reivers.