Explore The History of Tweeddale

Ancient fortifications, battle-fields, standing stones and ruined abbeys are the essential backdrop of this region, as potent to the imagination now as they were to Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, nearly 200 years ago. This was the stamping ground of the border reivers, those horse-thieves, cattle-thieves and murderers, who featured so prominently in the world-famous Border ballads. The ruins of castles, towerhouses and abbeys are reminders today of a past which is probably more bloody than that of any other area in Britain.

A visit to Peebles is not complete without a visit to:

Neidpath Castle: Romantic medieval castle, erstwhile home of Fraser, Hay and Douglas families. Contains displays of interest plus superb Batik wall hangings depicting Mary Queen of Scots life.

Traquair House: The oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland, Traquair was once a pleasure ground for Scottish kings in times of peace, then a refuge for catholic priests in times of terror.

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