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Crofton, Ian (2014) Walking the Border: A Journey Between Scotland and England, Birlinn; Readman, Paul (2014). "Living a British Borderland: Northumberland and the Scottish Borders in the Long Nineteenth Century". Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 169– 191. ISBN 978-1-137-32058-2. Robb, Graham (2018) The ...
River Esk near Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre at Eskdalemuir River Esk in Langholm. The River Esk (Scottish Gaelic: Easg), also known as the Border Esk [citation needed], is a river that rises in the Scottish region of Dumfries and Galloway before crossing the border to the English county of Cumbria and flowing into the Solway Firth.
This is a list of rivers of England, organised geographically and taken anti-clockwise around the English coast where the various rivers discharge into the surrounding seas, from the Solway Firth on the Scottish border to the Welsh Dee on the Welsh border, and again from the Wye on the Welsh border anti-clockwise to the Tweed on the Scottish border.
The Debatable Lands, also known as debatable ground, batable ground or threip lands, [1] lay between Scotland and England. [2] It was formerly in question as to which it belonged to when they were distinct kingdoms. [3] For most of its existence, the area was a lawless zone controlled by clans of "border reivers" which terrorized the ...
River Esk, North Yorkshire, in the North York Moors National Park and the county of North Yorkshire; River Esk (Ravenglass), in the Lake District National Park and the county of Cumbria; River Esk (Solway Firth), in the north of the county of Cumbria and along the border with Scotland, also known as the Border Esk
During this period, at the western end of the border there was a strip of country, called the "Debatable Land", because the possession of it was a constant source of contention between England and Scotland until its boundaries were adjusted in 1552. [4] Thus, across the region are to be seen the ruins of many castles, abbeys and even towns.
The River Tweed at Coldstream. Flowing into the North Sea between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Kincardine (East Coast). The right-bank tributary of the Tweed, the River Till together with its tributaries, is almost wholly within England but is included for completeness of the Tweed catchment.
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