The Border Country. Alan Hall H.

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СКАЧАТЬ the Cheviot Hills

       Walk 6 A Border Foray over White Swire

       Walk 7 The Lure of the Hen Hole

       Walk 8 The Schil, Guardian of the College Valley

       Walk 9 To the Changing Summit of Cheviot

       Walk 10 By Clennell Street to Windy Gyle

       Walk 11 A Walk into the Sixth Century BC

       Walk 12 By the ‘Clattering Path’ to Iron Age Forts

       Walk 13 A Redundant Reservoir to Celtic Hilltop Forts

       Walk 14 In the Footsteps of Agricola’s Legions

       Walk 15 The Iron Age and the Romans Inspired this Walk

       Walk 16 Border Line and Miners’ Road over Carter Fell

       Chapter 2 Tweeddale and Teviotdale

       Walk 17 A Sea View Figure-of-Eight

       Walk 18 Two Castles and a Keep

       Walk 19 A Walter Scott Connection

       Walk 20 Dryburgh Abbey and the Winding Tweed

       Walk 21 Three Peaks (Trimontium) above Melrose

       Walk 22 Three Brethren and Border Mischief

       Walk 23 The Cheese Well and the Bear Gates of Traquair

       Walk 24 Venerable Beech and Waterloo Monument

       Walk 25 An Iron Age Fort, Roman Signal Station and Covenanter’s Pulpit

       Walk 26 A Druids’ Stone Circle, Castles Most Sombre and a Rail Bed

       Walk 27 ‘Bundle and Go’ – a Reivers’ Cry

       Chapter 3 Ettrick Forest

       Walk 28 In Search of an Army’s Pay Chest

       Walk 29 Pele Towers and an Italian Balloonist

       Walk 30 Fair St Mary’s and Literary Giants

       Walk 31 ‘That’s the Way for Billy and Me’

       Walk 32 A Drovers’ Way

       Walk 33 ‘A Glacialist’s Walk’

       Walk 34 The Ettrick Horseshoe

       Walk 35 By Forest and Fell over Ettrick Pen

       Walk 36 An Eagle’s Eye View of the Moffat Water Valley and the Tweedsmuir Hills

       Chapter 4 The Tweedsmuir Hills

       Walk 37 Two Dramatic Waterfalls

       Walk 38 Dark and Deep Loch Skeen

       Walk 39 A Waterfall, a Loch, a Gorge and Surrounding Summits

       Walk 40 ‘A Walk on the Wild Side’ – 9000 Years Ago

       Walk 41 On the Edge of Blackhope’s Glacial Glen

       Walk 42 A Walk of Two Halves – Equally Appealing, Distinctly Different

       Walk 43 Broad Law – the Borders’ Highest Mountain

       Walk 44 Broad Law plus Cramalt Craig

       Walk 45 A Walk Through Time

       Walk 46 Benign Surroundings Hide a Dark and Dangerous Past

       Chapter 5 Long Distance Walks and Town Trails

       The Pennine Way

       The Alternative Pennine Way

       The Southern Upland Way

       St Cuthbert’s Way

       The Borders Abbeys Way

       Berwick-upon-Tweed

       Kelso

       Jedburgh

       Melrose

       Galashiels

       Selkirk

       Hawick

       Appendix 1 Glossary

       Appendix 2 Bibliography

       Appendix 3 Useful Information

       Appendix 4 Summary of Walks

INTRODUCTION

      Grey recumbent tombs of the dead in desert places,

      Standing stones on the vacant wine-red moor,

      Hills of sheep, and the homes of the silent vanquished races,

      And winds, austere and pure.

      R L Stevenson

The Border Hills and Southern Uplands

      Between England and Scotland lies the solitude of an upland area which, though neglected by rambler and mountain walker alike, offers to both a wealth of adventure. Although linked to the north of England and the Lothians of Scotland, this area has, because of its geographical seclusion and its history and tradition, retained its own distinct identity. The Borders region of Scotland (comprising the districts of Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, Ettrick and Lauderdale, and Tweeddale) and the northern fringes of Northumberland constitute the landmass known as the Borders covered in this guide. The population is around 120,000, the majority of whom reside in small towns and villages of which only 14 have more than 1500 inhabitants. This makes the area the second most thinly populated part of Scotland and certainly the most thinly populated part of England. The average space per head in the Borders is one person for every 11 acres, compared with an overall average for Scotland of less than four acres per person.

      The fertile farms in the straths (valleys) of the Tweed and Teviot have fostered a fine arable and stock tradition, while the surrounding hills have a reputation second to none for breeding and feeding sheep, proudly producing named breeds such as the Cheviot and the Border Leicester. Allied with the agriculture are twin spin-offs: quality textiles (the shrinking mainstay of the local economy) and food СКАЧАТЬ