Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders (skotsk: the Mairches, lit. 'the Marches'; skotsk gælisk: Crìochan na h-Alba) er en af de 32 kommuner eller enhedslig myndigheder council areas i Skotland. ^[1] Det grænser op til City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, Midlothian, South Lanarkshire, West Lothian andog mod sydvest, syd og øst de engelske counties Cumbria og Northumberland. Administrationscentret ligger i Newtown St Boswells.

Termen Scottish Borders, eller normalt blot "the Borders", bruges også til at betegne områderne i det sydlige Skotland og nordlige England omkring den engelsk-skotske grænse.

Byer og landsbyer

De største byer i Scottish Borders i 2011 er:^[2]

Galashiels: 14.994
Hawick: 14.294
Peebles: 8.376
Selkirk: 5.784
Kelso: 5.639
Jedburgh: 4.030
Eyemouth: 3.546
Innerleithen: 3.031
Duns: 2.753
Melrose: 2.307
Coldstream: 1.946
Earlston: 1.779

Seværdigheder

Abbotsford House
Berwickshire Coastal Path
Bowhill House
Cheviot Hills
Cessford Burn
Coldingham Bay
Dawyck Botanic Garden
Dryburgh Abbey – Historic Scotland
Duns Castle
Edin's Hall Broch
Ettrick Forest
Eyemouth
Floors Castle
Glentress Forest – Forest Enterprise
Greenknowe Tower
Harmony Garden – National Trust for Scotland
Hawkshaw – ancestral home of the Porteous family
Hermitage Castle – Historic Scotland
Jedburgh Abbey – Historic Scotland
Kailzie Gardens
Kelso Abbey
Kirna House (The Kirna, previously Grangehill)
Lammermuir Hills
Lauderdale
Manderston
Megget Reservoir
Mellerstain House
Melrose Abbey – Historic Scotland
Mire Loch
Monteviot
Morebattle
Neidpath Castle
Nisbet, Berwickshire
Nisbet, Roxburghshire
Paxton House
Pennine Way – National Trails
Priorwood Garden – National Trust for Scotland
Robert Smail's Printing Works – National Trust for Scotland
Scots' dike
Smailholm Tower – Historic Scotland
Southern Upland Way – National Trails
St. Abbs Head
St. Mary's Loch
St. Ronans Wells
Teviotdale
Thirlestane Castle
Traquair House
Trimontium and the Eildons
Union Bridge
Waterloo Monument
Wedderburn Castle

Referencer

^ "[Archived Content] UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives". Internet Memory Foundation. Arkiveret fra originalen den 5. februar 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: BOT: original-url status ukendt (link)
^ "Population of Scottish Borders towns (last count 2011)". ourscottishborders.com. Arkiveret fra originalen 12. januar 2019.