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| Some of the places shown in Eagle's Eye: The Scottish Borders & The East Coast |
| Longtown |
| River Esk |
| Langholm |
| Langholm Monument |
| Sammye Ling Monastery |
| Moffat |
| The Devil's Beeftub |
| St Mary's Loch |
| St Mary's Church |
| Niedpath Castle |
| Peebles |
| Traquair House |
| Galashiels |
| Abbotsford House |
| Selkirk |
| Hawick |
| Melrose Abbey |
| Dryburgh Abbey |
| Leaderfoot Viaduct |
| Jedburgh Abbey |
| Manderston House |
| Floors Castle |
| Kelso |
| Coldstream |
| Flodden Field |
| Etal Castle |
| Ford Castle |
| Bamburgh Castle |
| Holy Island |
| Berwick-upon-Tweed |
| Eyemouth |
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The Scottish Borders Enjoy a journey through the Scottish Borders, a land fought over by the Scots and English for centuries. The mill towns of the central valleys are in contrast with the grand homes of the eastern plain, and the beaches of the north east coast are stunning. |
Sammye Ling, deep in the Eskdalemuir hills, was the West’s first Tibetan Buddhist Centre, named after the original seat of learning established in Tibet in the late 8th Century. Samye Ling means unimaginable place. It provides help and guidance for those who seek enlightenment, and is dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan Buddhism art, medicine and culture. |
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Hawick is the largest of the Border mill towns. By 1800, 3000 people were employed here making a variety of cloth products, and the waterways through the town were adapted to provide power to the mills. Textiles continue to thrive in Hawick, and it’s home to a group of manufacturers including Pringle’s and Lyle & Scott, two brands recognised around the world. |
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The Tweed, they say, is the King of Scottish Rivers. Neidpath Castle sits majestically above it to the west of Peebles. It’s a 14th Century castle later converted to a tower house, and is built with an unusually hard mortar which binds its 11 feet thick walls. |
Of the four Border abbeys, Melrose is the biggest and best preserved. The first Abbey on this site was founded in the early 12 th century by King David I, with the community coming from Rievaulx in North Yorkshire. But it survived for only 150 years before being destroyed by soldiers of King Richard II as an act of revenge. |
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Floors Castle lays claim to being the largest inhabited house in Scotland. Originally created for the first Duke of Roxburghe through additions to an existing tower house in the early 18th century, it was expanded 100 years later into the magnificent baronial mansion that stands today. In the estate that surrounds is a holly tree, marking the spot where King James II was killed in 1460, when a cannon being used to assault nearby Roxburghe Castle exploded. |
The design of Kelso is that of a traditional Scottish Burgh. The town Hall, fronting onto the market square forms an island, along either side of which run the main roads of Horse Market and Wood Market, providing access to the town centre. Kelso is the spot where the Tweed is joined by the Teviot, and eastwards from here the river grows in stature as it nears the sea. |
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Holy Island has a religious history dating back to 635 when St Aidan built the first monastery here. A second building was created by Monks from Durham after the Norman Conquest, and the island became a spiritual retreat. But tourists who come to explore the history of this holy place occasionally fall foul of the incoming tide. Many a car has been trapped on the causeway which links the island with the shore and which floods twice daily. |
| At one time, the Kingdom of Northumbria stretched as far north as the Firth of Forth. Today it still comes as a surprise to many that Berwick, on the north shore of the Tweed, lies in England, not Scotland. The town’s three bridges span the mouth of the river, carrying road and rail traffic across the water. The oldest was completed in 1624, after King James VI complained, on the way to his coronation, about the state of the original wooden structure. |  |
