Guidebook presenting 45 day walks and one long distance route in the Scottish Borders. Split between the north and south Cheviots, Tweed, Ettrick, Moffat and Manor hills, the walks are a mixture of high and low-level routes and can be fully customised using multiple variants.
The day walks range from 3 to 14 miles (5-23km) in length and take between 1-17.5 hours. The long-distance route between Gretna and Berwick covers 121 miles (194km) and takes 7 days.
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1:50,000 OS maps
included for each walk
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Sized to easily
fit in a jacket pocket
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Information on
local points of interest
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GPX files
available to download
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Information given on
local geology and wildlife
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Illustrationen
45 colour OS maps, 2 overview maps, over 90 colour photos
Maße
Höhe: 165 mm
Breite: 115 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-78631-011-8 (9781786310118)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ronald Turnbull writes regularly for TGO, Lakeland Walker, Trail and Cumbria magazines and has won the Outdoor Writers and amp; Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence for his guidebooks on multiple occasions. He has written many other Cicerone guides including Walking in the Galloway Hills, Walking in the Southern Uplands, The Book of the Bivvy and Not the West Highland Way.
Map key
Overview map
Introduction
The borders of the Borders
Land of ballads
Geology of the Scottish Borders
Wildlife
When to walk
Getting there
Getting around
Accommodation
Maps
Access
Safety in the hills
Using this guide
1: The Cheviots (south)
Walk 1 Shillhope Law from Alwinton
Walk 2 Windy Gyle
Walk 3 Linhope Spout
Walk 4 Ingram hillforts
Walk 5 A Hedgehope Horseshoe to The Cheviot
2: The Cheviots (north)
Walk 6 Akeld to Humbleton Hill
Walk 7 The Cheviot: Hen Hole and Bizzle Hole
Walk 8 Newton Tors
Walk 9 Yeavering Bell
Walk 10 Forts for the day: Great Hetha and Ring Chesters
Walk 11 Yetholm to The Schil
Walk 12 Staerough Hill
Walk 13 Grubbit Law and Wideopen Hill
Walk 14 Dere Street to Chew Green
3: The Tweed
Walk 15 Ford to Roughting Linn
Walk 16 Horncliffe to Norham
Walk 17 St Abb and #039;s Head
Walk 18 Kelso and River Teviot
Walk 19 Roxburgh village and viaduct
Walk 20 Rubers Law
Walk 21 Waterloo Monument
Walk 22 Dryburgh Abbey and the Tweed
Walk 23 Tweed and Eildon
Walk 24 A Melrose Ramble
4: Yarrow and Ettrick
Walk 25 Bowhill: Duchess Drive
Walk 26 Ettrickbridge and Dryhope Tower
Walk 27 Broadmeadows to the Minchmoor Road
Walk 28 Yarrow to Glengaber Hill
Walk 29 St Mary and #039;s Loch
Walk 30 Loch of the Lowes and Peniestone Knowe
Walk 31 Bodesbeck Law
Walk 32 Ettrick Head Horseshoe
Walk 33 Selcoth Burn and Potburn Hass
Walk 34 Croft Head and Capel Fell
5: Moffat Hills
Walk 35 Loch Skeen and White Coomb
Walk 36 Dob and #039;s Linn to Loch Skeen
Walk 37 Hart Fell
Walk 38 Devil and #039;s Beef Tub
Walk 39 Devil and #039;s Beef Tub from Moffat
Walk 40 Gameshope circuit
6: Manor Hills
Walk 41 Traquair: the Raxed Thrapple
Walk 42 Dun Rig and Glen Sax
Walk 43 Cademuir Hill and the Tweed
Walk 44 Pykestone Hill from Drumelzier
Walk 45 Broad Law
7: Longer walks and expeditions
Walk 46 Walking the Border: Gretna to Berwick
Other long routes
St Cuthbert and #039;s Way
Moffat to Peebles
Wooler to Carter Bar
Borders Abbeys Way
Southern Upland Way (east)
Berwickshire Coastal Path
John Buchan Way
Cross Borders Drove Road
Annandale Way
Appendix A Route summary table
Appendix B Important information and facilities by area
