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.

Introduction
The Border Hills and Southern Uplands
Climate and Weather Patterns
Flora and Fauna
History: Time Charts
Public Rights of Way
Access
Accommodation
Using the Guide
Special Interests Table
Clothing and Equipment
Maps
Safety

Chapter 1 The Cheviot Hills
Walk 1     Early Christianity and Iron Age Forts
Walk 2     The Cheviot
Walk 3     Mountains, Crags and a Waterfall
Walk 4     A Gentle Introduction to Cheviot’s Foothills
Walk 5     Up and Down 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 Cheeses 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 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 Galcialist’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’ - 900 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