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Scottish Borders Selkirk

Bowhill House & Country Park

Description: This is the Scottish Borders home of the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry. K.T. Sited in the middle of extensive parkland, this year sees the arrival of the exhibition about James Hog...
Type: Historical-Buildings

Places to go in Selkirk, Scottish Borders

Halliwell's House Museum & Robson Gallery

Description: This museum explores and reveals the life of Selkirk through the ages. See the lives of the working people in majestic displays, follow the Time-line, find out about �The Souters� and se...
Type: Museums

Robert D Clapperton Photographic, Selkirk

Description: An original Daylight Photographic Studio dating from 1867. Has an amazing collection of negatives and photographic artefacts. See what it was like when you made a visit to a photograph...
Type: Museums

Places to go in Selkirk, Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders Archive and Local History Centre

Description: The research facility for those interested in Border Heritage, Local History, Tracing their Border Ancestors or Researching the History of their Homes. Ownership: Scottish Borders ...
Type: Family-History-Research

Places to go in Selkirk, Scottish Borders

Selkirk Glass Visitor Centre

As the parent company has gone into receivership, and the staff of Selkirk Glass have been paid off, this Visitor Centre is no longer open. The details have been left on this site in the hope that a ...
Type: Visitor-Attractions

Selkirk Market Place and Pant Well

Description: The Market Square was the most important part of the mediaeval town. There the commercial activity was based, with the various separate markets taking place close by. The Pant Well was ...
Type: Archaeological-Sites

Places to go in Selkirk, Scottish Borders

Sir Walter Scott's Courtroom

Description: The building in Selkirk where Sir Walter Scott sat as a Sheriff of Selkirk from 1804 till 1832. Now a museum which explores his life, his writings and especially his time as a Sheriff....
Type: Museums

Yair Bridge Picnic Site

Description: Through history this was one of the gathering places for Scottish armies heading south into England. Close to the Border with easy access from the North, East and West with flat land an...
Type: Leisure-Activities

Yarrow Stone

Description: An early Christian stone from the 5th Century AD, which commemorates the burial site of two Christian princes � Nudos and Dumnogenos, sons of Liberalis. Ownership: On private ground....
Type: Archaeological-Sites

Places to go in Selkirk, Scottish Borders

Mungo Park Statue, Selkirk

Description: This monument remembers the life and works of Mungo Park, the doctor and explorer who was born in 1771 at Foulshiels, 4 miles from Selkirk. Spending much of his life in Africa, he explor...
Type: Visitor-Attractions

Newark Castle, Bowhill

Description: First recorded in 1423 as the �New Werk� to replace the �Oldworck�. Attacked twice during the 16th century, it was eventually destroyed by Cromwell�s forces in 1650. In the 18th centur...
Type: Archaeological-Sites

Scottish Borders Selkirk