Home, Countess of ref1
Home, Fifteenth Earl of ref1
Home of Billie, Patrick ref1
Home of Wedderburn, Sir David ref1
Horncliffe ref1, ref2
Hotspur see Percy, Sir Henry
Howburn ref1
Humbleton Swyre ref1
Hundred Years War ref1
Hungry Law ref1
Huntly, Earl of ref1
Hutchinson, William ref1
immigration see migrants
Immigration Removal Centres ref1
Innerleithen ref1
International Court of Justice ref1
international law ref1
Irving, Washington ref1
Isabella of Pringle, Abbess of Coldstream ref1, ref2
James IV ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
James V ref1
James VI ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Jedburgh ref1
Jeddart callants ref1, ref2
Jenny Storie’s Stone ref1
Kelso ref1
Kelso Laddie ref1
Kemelpethe ref1
Kerr, Sir Robert ref1
Kerr of Cessford, Sir William ref1
Kershope, etymology of ref1
Kershope Burn ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Kershopebridge ref1, ref2
Kershopefoot ref1, ref2, ref3
Kershope Forest ref1, ref2
Kershopehead ref1
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Kielder Forest ref1, ref2, ref3
Kielder Skyspace ref1
Kielder Stone ref1, ref2, ref3
Kielder Water ref1, ref2
King’s Own Scottish Borderers ref1, ref2, ref3
King’s Seat ref1
Kinmont Willie see Armstrong of Kinmont, William
Kippie Island ref1
Kirk Yetholm ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Knox Knowe ref1
Kyle, Lieutenant George ref1
Ladykirk ref1
Ladykirk House ref1
Lamb Hill ref1
Lamisik Ford ref1
Lampedusa ref1
Lanercost Chronicle ref1
Larriston Fells ref1, ref2, ref3
Leap Hill ref1
Lennel House ref1, ref2
Lennox, Earl of ref1
Leyden, Dr John ref1
Liddel Strength ref1, ref2
Liddel Viaduct ref1
Liddel Water ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Liddesdale ref1
Liddesdale drow ref1
Limy Sike ref1
Lindesay, David de ref1
Lindisfarne see Holy Island
Lindsay of Pitscottie, Robert ref1
Livingstone New Town ref1
Loch Ness Monster ref1
Lochmaben Stone ref1, ref2
Lochmaben Stone, Battle of ref1
Logan Mack, James ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Longtown ref1, ref2, ref3
Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire ref1
Lothian ref1
Low Cocklaw ref1
M6 / M74 ref1, ref2, ref3
Mabon ref1
MacDiarmid, Hugh ref1
Mack, James Logan see Logan Mack, James
Malcolm II ref1
Mansfield, Lord ref1
Margaret, Maid of Norway ref1
Margaret Tudor (queen of James IV) ref1
Marmion ref1, ref2
Marshall Meadows Farm ref1, ref2
Mary, Queen of Scots ref1
Maxwell, Lord ref1, ref2
Melilla ref1
Merchiston Tower ref1
Merlin ref1
Merse of Berwickshire ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
migrant support centre ref1, ref2
migrants ref1
Milfield ref1
Ministry of Defence see MoD
Minot, Laurence ref1
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ref1
MoD ref1, ref2
Montrose, Earl of ref1
Moorside see Gretna munitions factory
Monck, General George ref1, ref2, ref3
Morlay, Roger de ref1
Morton, Regent ref1
Morton, Tower of ref1
Moscrop, Frank ref1
moss troopers ref1
Mozie Law ref1
Murder Cleugh ref1
Musgrave, Thomas ref1
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Norham ref1
Norham Castle ref1, ref2, ref3
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North Sea ref1
Northumberland, Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of ref1
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Offa’s Dyke ref1
Ogilvie, Will H. ref1
Ogre Hill ref1
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Old Toll House, Gretna ref1, ref2
Old Toll Pillar, Bloody Bush ref1
Order of the Garter ref1
Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland ref1
Ordnance Survey ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Otterburn, Battle of ref1, ref2, ref3
Otterburn Ranges ref1, ref2
Owen the Bald ref1
Oxendean Burn ref1
Paradise ref1
Pax Romana ref1
Paxton House ref1, ref2, ref3
Paxton Toll House ref1
Peebles Cornet ref1
Peel Fell ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Pennant, Thomas ref1
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Penton ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Penton Discussion Group ref1
Penton House ref1
Penton Linn ref1
Percy, Sir Henry (‘Hotspur’) ref1
Percy family see Northumberland, Earls and Dukes of
Phillip’s Cross ref1
Pictish ref1
Plea Knowe ref1
Port Carlisle ref1
Ptolemy ref1
Puck ref1
Purdom Pikes ref1
‘push-back’ operations ref1
Queen of the Faeries / Queen of Elfhame ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
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Quintinshill rail disaster ref1
Rajdhani Spice, Coldstream ref1
Raeshaw Fell ref1
‘Raid of the Reidswire, The’ ref1
Randy’s Gap ref1
Redden Burn ref1
Redesdale ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Redeswire Fray ref1
Reid, Robert (engineer of Coldstream Bridge) ref1
Reid, Robert (architect of Paxton House’s East Wing) ref1
reivers ref1, ref2, ref3
Reivers Mountain Bike Club ref1
Riccarton Junction ref1
Richardson, Moses Aaron ref1
Riddings Farm ref1
Riddings Junction ref1
right to roam ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Robert the Bruce ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Robin Goodfellow ref1
Rochester ref1
Rockcliffe Marsh ref1
roe deer ref1, ref2, ref3
Romans ref1
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Rosamond ref1
Royal Scots ref1
Russell, Lord Francis ref1
Russell’s Cairn ref1
Ruthal, Bishop of Durham, Thomas ref1, ref2
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St Cuthbert’s Chapel ref1, ref2
St George, Cross of see Cross of St George
Salkeld, Thomas ref1
salmon fishing ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Salter’s Road ref1
Saltire see Blue Saltire
sand martins ref1
Sark, Battle of see Lochmaben Stone, Battle of
Sark, River ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Sark Bridge ref1
Sarkfoot Point ref1, ref2
Scaup Burn ref1
Schengen Area ref1, ref2
Schil, the ref1, ref2
Scotch Haugh ref1
Scotch Kershope ref1, ref2
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Scott, Sir Walter ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
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Second World War ref1
Selby, Sir Walter ref1
Serco ref1
Seventh Seal, The ref1
Shakespeare, William ref1, ref2
Shameful Peace, the see Northampton, Treaty of
Shank Hill ref1
sheepdog trials ref1
Shotton Burn ref1
Simeon of Durham ref1
Sinclair, Sir John ref1
Skyspace see Kielder Skyspace
Slap, the ref1
Smeaton, John ref1
Smith, Ali ref1
Smith, Sergeant George P. ref1
Smollett, Tobias ref1, ref2
smugglers ref1
Solway Firth ref1, ref2, ref3
Solway Moss ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Solway Moss, Battle of ref1
Soulis, William, Lord ref1
Southern Upland Way ref1
Springfield ref1, ref2
Squire Pool ref1
Steel, David ref1
Steer Rig ref1
Stewart, Marjorie ref1
Stewart, Walter ref1
Stewart dynasty ref1
Stock Law ref1, ref2
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Stuart Lancaster Memorial Hut ref1
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Thomas the Rhymer ref1, ref2, ref3
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Turkey–Syria border ref1
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United States borders ref1
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wildcats ref1
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Yawkins, Captain ref1
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Yetholm Mains ref1, ref2, ref3
Yugoslavia ref1
Pebble-studded mudflat where Solway meets Sark, and the Border is sucked inland.
Gravestone in Gretna.
DLO Longtown, an MoD munitions dump that was once part of a vast First World War cordite factory that spread for miles either side of the Border.
Dead moles strung on a barbed-wire fence by the River Sark.
Sign by the old Waverley Line on the English side of the Liddell Water. No right to roam here.
The ditch called Clark’s Sike forms the Border beneath Hobbs’ Flow.
The toll pillar on the Bloody Bush Road.
Border wall on the eastern flank of Larriston Fells.
Border stone between Peel Fell and Carter Fell. The ‘N’ stands for the Duke of Northumberland, who fixed the Border here with his neighbouring landowner the Earl of Douglas in the 18th century. There’s a mirror-image ‘D’ on the other side of the stone.
The Border stones at Carter Bar.
Ascending back up Clennell Street to the Border by Windy Gyle, having found water down in the forest.
The Border fence between Randy’s Gap and King’s Seat, on the west side of the Cheviot.
Skull on the Border fence on Bowmont Hill, north of Kirk Yetholm. (not found)
Riders relax after their gallop up Branxton Hill during the Flodden Ride-Out. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
Approaching Flodden Cross for the laying of the thistles. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
‘Yella, yella yella. Any colour you like. Very cheap.’ Coldstream High Street on the last night of Civic Week. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
The climax of Coldstream’s Civic Week. ‘It was as if all the devils of hell were after the souls of the slaughtered.’ (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
Masonry at Norham Castle
Sticker on the back of a road sign, Cornhill on Tweed.
Road sign on the English side of the Tweed.
Graffito in Berwick
By the mouth of the River Sark: ‘It might once have been an ash, but now it was more like some prehistoric monster lurching from its lair, a knot hole for an eye, a root for a snout, the body scaly and green with algae.’
The M6 crosses the River Sark and halfway across becomes the M74.
Looking down on the Sark from the Scottish side.
Nature reclaims her own on the old Waverley Line, south of Liddel Water.
Following the Kershope Burn towards Scotch Knowe.
The crook-maker at Dalston Fair. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
In Kielder Forest: ‘On either side there were deep ditches dripping with ruby, emerald and purple mosses, lush and treacherous.’
My campsite on Deadwater Rig.
Jenny Storie’s Stone, on the flank of Peel Fell.
The view south from Carter Fell into Northumberland.
Dere Street by Coquet Head, from the Roman camp at Chew Green.
The Carham Burn leading the Border into the Tweed.
The proprietor of Coldstream Crafts and her cat. ‘It’s a place that the nastiness of the world has passed by,’ she says. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
View from the wild camp on Ba Green, the tiny Scottish exclave on the south side of the Tweed. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
Children watch the
horses pass on Coldstream High Street, en route to Flodden Field. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
Four generations of Peebles Cornets take a break on Branxton Hill. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
The Coldstreamer lowers the Earl of Home’s standard over the sod of earth cut from Flodden Field. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
Inside Rajdhani Spice, Coldstream. The town also has a Chinese takeaway, and Anthony’s, an Italian chippy. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
Mr Forman, butcher of Norham and custodian of its castle. Although born in Edinburgh, he has always lived in England. He thinks of himself as neither Scottish nor English, but as a Berwicker, as that was his mother’s town. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
The torchlit procession on the last night of Coldstream’s Civic Week. (Photo: Joyce Nicholls)
From the south bank of the Tweed towards either Dreeper Island or Kippie Island. The former is entirely in England, the latter entirely in Scotland, but both form parts of the same island.
Window shutter on a fisherman’s hut near Paxton House, on the Tweed.
The wall that keeps a thousand free-range pigs out of Scotland, near Halidon Hill.
A full moon rises over the North Sea at the end of my journey.