Information on the Scottish Borders

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The Scottish Borders, less than an hour's drive from Edinburgh, is an area of tranquil villages, bustling textile towns and varied scenery. Visitors can enjoy a wide range of

attractions, including many magnificent, privately owned historic houses, great Border abbeys, telling their own tale of Border feuds with England, and working woolen mills and craft workshops.The spirit of self-reliance and pride in the community here is nowhere better expressed than in the Border Common Ridings. These annual events in early summer recall times when community boundaries had to be protected from invaders. Now they are great celebrations of horsemanship. The town of Selkirk claims that itsCommon Riding is the largest mounted gathering anywhere in Europe.

Just north of the border, Paxton House is a handsome mansion with a picture gallery which is part of the National Galleries of Scotland.Floors Castle, on theedge of Kelso, is said to be the largest

inhabited home in Scotland.
The Romans also passed this way. They named their main camp Trimontium, as it lay below the triple-peaked Eildon Hills near Melrose. The Trimontium Exhibition in this handsome little town tells the story of the Roman occupation.
The birthplace of Robert Burns the world famous Scottish poet can be found in nearby Alloway.

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	Robert Burns, his cottage in Alloway.
	Melrose Abbey. on the Scottish Borders.
	Roman Emperor Hadrian's border wall.

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