The Border Country - A Walker’s Guide

 
The guide opens up to the walker the landscape of the Border country that lies between England and Scotland, including the Cheviots, Tweeddale and Teviotdale, Ettrick Forest and the Tweedsmuir Hills. Includes 46 varied routes, and outlines of a number of long-distance walks and town trails.
 

The Border Country

A Walker’s Guide
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Paperback - Laminated
Edition
Third
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9781852844592
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Seasons
Recommended months are April to October.
Centres
Melrose, Kelso, Jedburgh, Yetholm, Selkirk, Wooler, Hawick, Moffat, St Mary’s Loch
Difficulty
Varied – suitable for the committed mountain walker to the leisurely valley stroller. All routes graded for difficulty.
Must See
Wild solitude of the Cheviots; historic castles, pele towers and stone circles; Ettrick Horseshoe; Berwick-upon-Tweed trail
 
 

A Short Border History, Francis Hindes Groome (J & J H Rutherford, 1887)

Border Poets, James Hogg, Sir Walter Scott

Exploring Scotland’s Heritage, Lothians and the Borders (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, Edinburgh)

Highways and Byways: In the Border, Andrew and John Lang (Macmillan and Co., London, 1913, reprinted 1914 and 1929)

Homes and Haunts of Sir Walter Scott, George G Napier (J MacLehose & Sons, Glasgow, 1897)

The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Lockhart (University Press of the Pacific, 2002)

A Pennine Way Companion, A. Wainwright (Frances Lincoln, 2004)

Southern Upland Way, David Williams (Constable and Co. Ltd, London)

St Cuthbert's Way, Roger Smith and Ron Shaw (Scottish Borders Council, 1997)

The Border Line, James Logan Mack (Edinburgh)

The Borders, F R Banks (B T Batsford, London, 1977)

The Corbetts & Other Scottish Hills Scottish Mountaineering Club Hillwalkers’ Guide (2nd edition, 2002)

The Drove Roads of Scotland, A R B Haldane

The Steel Bonnets, George MacDonald Fraser (Akadine Press, 2001)

Walks in the Cheviot Hills (Northumberland County Council, National Park and Countryside Department, Hexham)

 
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