Selkirk

Selkirk is situated in the Scottish Borders on the Ettrick Water.

Sir Walter Scott was sheriff from 1803 to 1832.

There is a memorial to the Battle of Flodden beside Victoria Hall.

A plaque in the Kirk o' the Forest marks the site of the church where William Wallace was supposedly made Guardian of Scotland. This claim is also made at Carluke in Lanarkshire.

To the east of Selkirk is the small village of Philiphaugh. Near here, where a bridge crosses the Yarrow, in 1645, the Covenanters defeated the royalist force of the Marquis of Montrose - ending the latter's Year of Miracles. The remaining royalists were taken to Newark Castle and executed. The Covenanters are said to have also killed many women and children.

From Selkirk the A699 heads east to Kelso, crossing the A68 at Saint Boswells. Heading west from Selkirk the A699 joins the A708, which runs north to join the A72 near Galashiels or southwest to Dumfries & Galloway.

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