Hawick and the Borders

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These pictures were taken during a short stay in Hawick at the end of July 2004.
All were shot on a Nikon D100 camera, as high resolution raw images, and reduced to small images for web display.
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Four Abbeys Way: Hawick to Selkirk

  
 


Looking down on Hawick from Langlands Rd (not on the official route.)

  
 

The Borders Abbeys Way is a walking route in four parts that links the great ruined abbeys in Kelso, Jedburgh, Melrose and Dryburgh, as well as including the towns of Hawick and Selkirk. The full route is roughly 65 miles long.

I only did one stage, the 12 miles form Hawick to Selkirk, the only stage that does not include a ruined abbey! Leaflets are available free from tourist information centres and the route is well waymarked. We had to walk an extra mile or so to reach the route, and again from the bus route back to the house where we were staying, making it around 14 miles in all.

Fortunately there is a good bus service to bring you back from Selkirk to Hawick, roughly hourly with some extra journeys. We came back on the front seats on the top deck of a double-decker bus, which gave some splendid views, but I was too tired to try to photograph them.

  

 
 
Going out of Hawick on Stirches Rd		  
 
Guthrie Drive on the edge of Hawick, presumably named after the motorcycle ace. 		 
 
The road to Drinkstone Farm.  		 
 
 
 
 
Inside the Forest
  
 
View across the Ale Valley		  
 
Field by the Ale Water		  
 
Bridge over the Ale Water		  


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