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Borders today

Where is Liddesdale?

The Forgotten Lands of Scotland:
A Guide to the Borders of Scotland
http://www.scottish-selection.com/scobord/

Scottish Tourist Board
http://www.holiday.scotland.net/welcome.htm

Colonel 'Pat' Paterson's
The Scottish Borders
http://www.camelotintl.com/heritage/scclose.html

Hermitage Castle
http://www.aboutscotland.co.uk/hermitage.html
http://www.nucleus.com/~stevo/ECScastle.html

Carlisle Castle
http://www.cumbria1st.com/History/carlcas.htm

clans

The Clan Armstrong Trust
http://www.gwa2.demon.co.uk/

Armstrong genealogy and history center
http://www.gendex.com/~guest/martin/enigma/

Elliot Clan Society
http://www.nucleus.com/~stevo/ECSintro.html

Clan Maxwell Society of Canada
http://www.cyberus.ca/~madmax/clanmaxwell.html

Border Clan map
http://www.tartans.com/clans/Hall/g/border~1.gif

Border art -- clan maps
http://www.borderart.com/intro.html

Borders history

Scottish history
http://www.tartans.com/historic.html

Johnie Armstrang -- the text of the ballad
http://www.tartans.com/johnarms.html

Fyre and sworde:
Songs of the Border Reivers --
a CD by ex-members of Steeleye Span -- features
Kinmont Willie

The Official Home Of The Border Reivers
http://www.reivers.com/index.htm

John David Rutledge's
The Border Reivers of Scotland and England
http://www.jacksonville.net/~rutledge/reivers.htm

The Border Reivers -- an introduction
http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/VG/rvintro.html

Reiving, Feuding, And Primitive Warfare
http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/JWA/V1N4/reivers-art.txt

Northumbrian reivers
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2143/ancestor.html

Shake Loose the Border
by Paula Katherine Marmor
lots of Walter Scott links
http://www.legends.dm.net/ballads/borders.html

Sir Walter Scott links page
http://www.sc.edu/library/scotlit/l-ws.html

organisations

Scottish Borders Tourist Board
Jedburgh Tourist Information Centre
Murrays Green
Jedburgh TD8 6BE
Tel: 01835 863 435/863 688
Fax: 01835 864 099

Cumbria Record Office
Carlisle Castle
Carlisle CA3 8UR
Tel: 01228 607 284/5

Abbotsford House
Melrose TD6 9BQ
Tel: 0131 668 8830
Fax: 0131 668 8888
The home of Sir Walter Scott.

Hartnell Images
PO Box 97
Morpeth
Northumberland NE61 1EN
For details about the life and legends of the Border reivers.

Hermitage Castle
Newcastleton TD9 0LU
Tel: 013873 76222

Liddesdale Heritage Centre
South Hermitage Street
Newcastleton
Roxburghshire

Tullie House
Castle Street
Carlisle
Tel: 01228 34781
For information on Border reiver families, publications and products for sale.

further reading

The Steel Bonnets: The story of the Anglo-Scottish Border reivers by George MacDonald Fraser, Collins Harvill, 1974, paperback rev. ed. 1989.

The Reivers: The Anglo-Scottish Border raiders by Keith Durham and Angus McBride, Montvert Publications, 1998.

The Border Reivers by Godfrey Watson, Sandhill Publishing, 1994.

In Search of the Border Reivers: An historical map and guide, Ordnance Survey, 1998.

about Sir Walter Scott
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, edited by W E K Anderson, Canongate, 1998.

The Laird of Abbotsford: A view of Sir Walter Scott by A N Wilson, Mandarin, 1996.

Sir Walter Scott by James Aloysius Carruth, Jarrold Publishing, 1985.