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The Romans and Reivers Route is a long-distance path in southern Scotland, linking the Forest of Ae in Dumfries and Galloway with Hawick in the Scottish Borders. [2] The route, which is 84 km long, [1] uses forest tracks, drovers' roads and some sections of public road to link Roman roads across the border country of Scotland.
Ae & Hawick: 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 ...
Circular challenge walk with over 7,000 feet (2,100 m) of accent. [77] Bullock Smithy Hike: 40 64: Lancashire: N/A: N/A: Circular route around Burnley, covering a range of terrain from canal towpaths to open moorland. Calderdale Way: 50 80: Calderdale, West Yorkshire: Greetland: N/A: Ccircular route devised in the 1970s. Centenary Way: 83 134 ...
Peebles is a popular centre for walkers, cyclists, and horse riders. It is the eastern terminus of the John Buchan Way, a 22-kilometre (14 mi) walking route which runs between Peebles and Broughton. The Cross Borders Drove Road, an 82-kilometre (51 mi) route between Hawick and Little Vantage, also passes through the town. [17] [18]
Hawick (/ h ɔɪ k / ⓘ HOYK; Scots: Haaick; Scottish Gaelic: Hamhaig) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is 10 miles (16.1 km) south-west of Jedburgh and 8.9 miles (14.3 km) south-south-east of Selkirk .
The Maiden Paps are twin hills near Hawick, in the Scottish Borders of the south east of Scotland, so named because they have the shape of human breasts.They are located 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of Hawick; the higher pap is 510 metres (1,670 ft) and the lower 500 metres (1,600 ft) high.
In Hawick the A7 continues along the north bank of the River Teviot to cross the river at the Albert Bridge and follows the south bank of the river towards Langholm, then bypasses Canonbie. South of Langholm the road has been improved, allowing for overtaking.
The Teviot passes through Hawick and Lanton, past the Timpendean Tower and the village of Ancrum, Harestanes and Monteviot, Nisbet and Roxburgh, before joining the River Tweed to the southwest of Kelso. [3] [4] The Borders Abbeys Way keeps close company with the Teviot on its journey to the Tweed. [5]