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Before the 13th century, a large fort or castle was built on Castle Hill near the Leader Water. It was the site of the ancient church of Lauder, where in 1482, James III's favourites, including the architect Robert Cochrane, were dragged by envious nobles led by Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus and hanged from the (earlier) Lauder Bridge.
The Southern Upland Way entering Lauderdale. Lauderdale is the valley of the Leader Water (a tributary of the Tweed) in the Scottish Borders. It contains the town of Lauder, as well as Earlston. The valley is traversed from end to end by the A68 trunk road, which runs from Darlington to Edinburgh.
Scottish Borders and Northern England: Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders: Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland: Coastal path spanning the Anglo-Scottish border. Borders Abbeys Way: 68 109: Scottish Borders: N/A: N/A: Circular route in the Borders passing through the ruins of many abbeys: Kelso – Jedburgh – Hawick – Selkirk – Melrose ...
It is named in honour of the Scottish conservationist John Muir, who was born in Dunbar in 1838 and became a founder of the United States National Park Service. The route provides a coast-to-coast route across Scotland, linking Muir's birthplace with Scotland's first national park , Loch Lomond and The Trossachs , [ 2 ] and Helensburgh , from ...
Much of the route follows former Roman roads in the Borders. SGT Roman Heritage Way: 241: Wallsend & Melrose: Heads north from Hadrian's Wall into the Scottish Borders. [19] Virtual route Scottish Coastal Way-N/A: A proposed route around the coastline of Scotland. Proposed virtual route Scottish National Trail: 864: Kirk Yetholm & Cape Wrath
The Berwickshire Coastal Path is a walking route some 48 kilometres (30 mi) long. It follows the eastern coastline of Scotland from Cockburnspath in the Scottish Borders to Berwick upon Tweed, just over the border in England. [3] At Cockburnspath the path links with the Southern Upland Way and the John Muir Way. [3]
Map of places in the Scottish Borders compiled from this list See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties.. This list of places in the Scottish Borders includes towns, villages, hamlets, castles, golf courses, historic houses, hillforts, lighthouses, nature reserves, reservoirs, rivers, and other places of interest in the Scottish Borders council area of Scotland
The former Royal Burgh of Lauder (/ ˈ l ɔː d ər /, Scottish Gaelic: Labhdar [3]) is a town in the Scottish Borders in the historic county of Berwickshire. On the Southern Upland Way , the burgh lies 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Edinburgh , on the western edge of the Lammermuir Hills .