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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.
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
Land's End Trail: 303 488: South West Peninsula: Land's End, Cornwall: Avebury, Wiltshire: Links Land's End with many of England's central long-distance trails. [40] Leland Trail: 28 45: Somerset: King Alfred's Tower, Brewham: Ham Hill: Named after the antiquary and poet John Leland. [41] Liberty Trail: 28 45: Somerset and Dorset: Ham Hill ...
The Coast to Coast Walk is a long-distance footpath between the west and east coasts of Northern England, nominally 190-mile (306 km) long.Devised by Alfred Wainwright, it passes through three contrasting national parks: the Lake District National Park, the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the North York Moors National Park. [1]
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 ...
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.
The area around the Sark was notoriously marshy and sandy, as much of the coast of the north west Irish Sea is. The small section between the lower end of the Sark and the River Esk is known as the "debatable lands", and was formerly a haven for criminals and outlaws who wished to exploit the weakness of the two countries' border defences. [6]