Battle of Dryfe Sands
The Battle Of Dryfe Sands The Battle of Dryfe Sands, 1593, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire The Battle of Dryfe Sands, fought on 6 December 1593, was the culmination of the famous and long standing deadly feud between…
Battle of Ancrum Moor
Ancrum Moor Battlefield The Battle of Ancrum Moor was fought on the 17th February 1545 between a motley English force under Sir Ralph Eure and Sir Brian Layton and a smaller but well-led Scottish force…
Thieves Road from Teviotdale to Liddesdale Roxburghshire
Thieves Road, Roxburghshire The Thieves Road, from Teviotdale to Liddesdale, Roxburghshire, Photograph taken, looking North, from NT473046 The “Thieves Road” is an old track from Teviotdale into Liddesdale by way of Swire Knowe. It can…
Walter Scott of Harden or Auld Wat of Harden a celebrated Reiver
Walter Scott of Harden Walter Scott of Harden or “Auld Wat” of Harden, a celebrated Reiver “Auld Wat” of Harden was a notorious Reiver in his day. He famously remarked, as he passed a haystack…
Wardens Meeting Place At Wark Castle
Wardens Meeting Place At Wark Castle Wardens Meeting Place and Ford over the River Tweed below Wark Castle in Northumberland The remains of Wark Castle overlook the River Tweed and one of the main fording…
Sir Richard Lowther Tomb And Effigy
Tomb And Effigy Of Sir Richard Lowther Tomb with effigy of Sir Richard Lowther, Lord Warden of the Marches in Lowther Church, Cumbria The inscription above Sir Richard Lowther's tomb runs thus; “Sr.Rich:Lowther Knig.Succeeded Hen:…
Thomas Lord Dacre Tomb At Lanercost Priory
Thomas, Lord Dacre's Tomb At Lanercost Priory Tomb of Thomas, Lord Dacre (1467-1525) at Lanercost Priory The tomb of Thomas Lord Dacre, of Flodden fame, who died in 1525 stands in the Chapel of St.…
Edward I Monument Solway Firth Fording Places
Edward I Monument Solway - Firth Fording Places Solway Firth Fords; Edward I Monument and sites of former Solway crossings King Edward I, “The Hammer of the Scots”, died on the Solway in 1307 while…
Sir Richard Salkeld Captain Of Carlisle
Sir Richard Salkeld, Captain Of Carlisle Effigy from the Tomb of Sir Richard Salkeld, Captain of Carlisle d.1500 The effigy of Sir Richard Salkeld of Corby Castle, who died in 1500 and his wife Jane…
Sir Humphry Dacre Tomb Lanercost Priory
Sir Humphry Dacre Tomb At Lanercost Priory Tomb of Sir Humphry Dacre, Lord Warden of the West March d.1485 The tomb of Sir Humphry Dacre, Lord Warden of the English West March who died in…
Muckle-Moud Meg Sculpture Thornylee Picnic Site Tweeddale Scottish Borders
Muckle-Mou'd Meg Sculpture Muckle-Mou'd Meg Sculpture, Thornylee Picnic Site,Tweeddale The sculpture was carved from a single piece of local elm provided by the Forestry Commission by Rob Taylor, a local sculptor based in Ancrum in…
Millholm Cross Liddesdale Newcastleton Roxburghshire Scottish Borders
Laird of Mangerton’s Millholm Cross Millholm Cross, Liddesdale, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders The Millholm Cross stands in Liddesdale across the river and opposite Mangerton Tower, the stronghold of the Armstrong chiefs. It was erected about…
Armstrongs The lost Towers of Liddesdale
Armstrongs; The lost Towers of Liddesdale The Lost Towers of the Armstrongs of Liddesdale, in Roxburghshire, Dumfriesshire and Cumbria The valley stretches from the junction of the rivers Liddel and Esk in the south for…
Lang Sandie Sculpture at Rowanburn Dumfriesshire
Lang Sandie, Sculpture at Rowanburn, Dumfriesshire Sculpture of a Border Reiver called Lang Sandie at Rowanburn, Dumfriesshire Lang Sandie is a prominently sited piece of public sculpture, standing by the roadside at Rowanburn, near Canonbie…
