This is a bit of a hidden gem on any tours of Scotland. It is a town in Berwickshire. There is a picturesque coast with a beach and the Hurcars Rocks. The original harbour was built in 1768, and was extended at the end of the 19th Century. This...
This is situated in Lauderdale, Berwickshire. It’s a good stop on any tours of Scotland. Lauder’s charter as a royal burgh dates from 1502. But there are claims it has been a royal burgh since the time of William the First in 1185. The local church was built by...
This is a quaint fishing village worth a stop on any tours of Scotland. It has a beautiful sandy beach and a magnificent coastline. There is an important lighthouse dating from 1861 standing on St Abbs head. Near the lighthouse are the last traces of an early Christian...
The town of Duns, about a mile from the castle, has been the regent county town of Berwickshire since the town of Berwick ceased to be in Scotland. The little market town, which took its name from the ‘dun’(hill) on which it is built and...
When William and Dorothy Wordsworth visited Dryburgh in 1803 during their tour of Scotland (recorded by Dorothy) they were admitted by a goblin-like woman who smelled of peat: ‘If she had emitted smoke by her breath and through every pore, the odour could not have...