Contents
Introduction
The borders of the Borders
Land of ballads
Geology of the Scottish Borders
Wildlife
When to walk
Getting there
Getting around
Accommodation
Maps
Access
Safety in the hills
Using this guide
1: The Cheviots (south)
Walk 1 Shillhope Law from Alwinton
Walk 2 Windy Gyle
Walk 3 Linhope Spout
Walk 4 Ingram hillforts
Walk 5 A Hedgehope Horseshoe to The Cheviot
2: The Cheviots (north)
Walk 6 Akeld to Humbleton Hill
Walk 7 The Cheviot: Hen Hole and Bizzle Hole
Walk 8 Newton Tors
Walk 9 Yeavering Bell
Walk 10 Forts for the day: Great Hetha and Ring Chesters
Walk 11 Yetholm to The Schil
Walk 12 Staerough Hill
Walk 13 Grubbit Law and Wideopen Hill
Walk 14 Dere Street to Chew Green
3: The Tweed
Walk 15 Ford to Roughting Linn
Walk 16 Horncliffe to Norham
Walk 17 St Abb’s Head
Walk 18 Kelso and River Teviot
Walk 19 Roxburgh village and viaduct
Walk 20 Rubers Law
Walk 21 Waterloo Monument
Walk 22 Dryburgh Abbey and the Tweed
Walk 23 Tweed and Eildon
Walk 24 A Melrose Ramble
4: Yarrow and Ettrick
Walk 25 Bowhill: Duchess Drive
Walk 26 Ettrickbridge and Dryhope Tower
Walk 27 Broadmeadows to the Minchmoor Road
Walk 28 Yarrow to Glengaber Hill
Walk 29 St Mary’s Loch
Walk 30 Loch of the Lowes and Peniestone Knowe
Walk 31 Bodesbeck Law
Walk 32 Ettrick Head Horseshoe
Walk 33 Selcoth Burn and Potburn Hass
Walk 34 Croft Head and Capel Fell
5: Moffat Hills
Walk 35 Loch Skeen and White Coomb
Walk 36 Dob’s Linn to Loch Skeen
Walk 37 Hart Fell
Walk 38 Devil’s Beef Tub
Walk 39 Devil’s Beef Tub from Moffat
Walk 40 Gameshope circuit
6: Manor Hills
Walk 41 Traquair: the Raxed Thrapple
Walk 42 Dun Rig and Glen Sax
Walk 43 Cademuir Hill and the Tweed
Walk 44 Pykestone Hill from Drumelzier
Walk 45 Broad Law
7: Longer walks and expeditions
Walk 46 Walking the Border: Gretna to Berwick
Other long routes
St Cuthbert’s Way
Moffat to Peebles
Wooler to Carter Bar
Borders Abbeys Way
Southern Upland Way (east)
Berwickshire Coastal Path
John Buchan Way
Cross Borders Drove Road
Annandale Way
Appendix A Route summary table
Appendix B Important information and facilities by area
September 2020
Walk 17 St Abb’s Head
Thank you to Mick Borroff for the following information.
Near Westloch House there is a preferred waymarked and stiled footpath with clear signing that indicates that it should be taken to avoid the farmyard and the climb over the double-gate to access the lane back to Coldingham.
P107 Above a loch-side house, join a gravel track up to a gate; bend right and in 300 metres bend right again to another gate marked 'Farmhouse only'. Follow the footpath sign along the track for 100 metres and turn left over a waymarked stile into a grassy field, and over two further stiles to emerge through a hedge on the lane beyond. Follow the lane gently downhill to Coldingham…
September 2020
Route 20 Rubers Law
A reader reports that the gate at NT560158 is marked 'no unauthorised persons'. This is contrary to the Scottish Access Code, and has been drawn to the attention of the Borders Access Officer. Accordingly, it may soon be removed.
In the meantime, thank you to Mick Borroff for providing the following alternative route:
P116 At a lane turn left to a junction signed to the right for Bonchester Bridge. Ignore this and go straight on. After 50 metres take a track on the right into the trees and paddle across the shallow ford. Follow the track to a pair of gates, proceeding through the right hand one and go diagonally up the grassy field to another gate in the fence in the top right (SE) corner.
Walk up the second field paralleling the fence line ESE to a gate in a wall. Cross this third field diagonally NE to a broken wall corner and on up to another gate. Crossing left through the immediately adjacent gate allows easier progress to be made up grassy terrain avoiding the rough heathery ground to the right. Cross a minor track and pick your way up rocky Rubers Law to its trig point.
