10 Informative Scottish Borders Facts

Informative Scottish Borders Facts

Scottish Borders Facts

  • The term Scottish Borders is also used to designate the areas of southern Scotland and northern England that bound the Anglo-Scottish border.
  • The Borders boasts four magnificent ruined Medieval abbeys which date back to the 12th century: Jedburgh, Melrose, Kelso, and Dryburgh.
  • The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, Midlothian, South Lanarkshire, West Lothian, and, to the south-west, south, and east, the English counties of Cumbria and Northumberland.
  • The famous Rugby Sevens game was invented in the Borders town of Melrose in the 1880s.
  • The largest towns near the borders of the Anglo-Scottish border: Galashiels, Hawick, Peebles, Selkirk & Kelso.
  • The term Borders also has a wider meaning, referring to all of the counties adjoining the English border, also including Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire – as well as Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland in England.
  • Every year the region plays host to the world’s oldest and largest equestrian festival: The Common Ridings.
  • The Scottish Borders also have some fabulous Roman remains which date back to their failed attempt to conquer Scotland.
  • The region also has no commercial airports; the nearest is Edinburgh, Scotland, and Newcastle, England both of which are international airports.
  • The Siege of Roxburgh Castle, in 1313, was the first major conflict in the First War of Scottish Independence.
Informative Scottish Borders Facts
Informative Scottish Borders Facts