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Peeblesshire
Peeblesshire, Scotland
Peeblesshire is an inland county in southern Scotland. Peeblesshire is in the heart of the hills where the Southern Uplands and Lammermuir Hills merge. Of the shires along the Tweed it is the highest, and the one most filled with mountains.
Type: Historic County
Lat, Long: 55.656545,-3.157395
Grid Reference: NT272409
Country: Scotland
Explore Peeblesshire on Wikishire
The Tweed rises at Tweed's Well, at the southern edge of Peeblesshire and runs north through the shire in a steep valley between the mountains, entering the fine area of Upper Tweeddale. This river has given Peeblesshire its alternative name: Tweeddale. The river flows past the village of Tweedsmuir, set in the valley with the rolling Cheviot Hills and burns on both sides. The highest point of Peeblesshire lies east of Tweedsmuir, Broad Law at 2,756 feet. Close by and almost as high is Cramalt Craig (2,723 feet).
Cramalt Craig to Broad Law
The Tweed continues northwards until reaches its northernmost point by Peebles itself. Peebles, the only town of any size in the county, was once a popular spa town. It is still a fine holiday destination. St Andrew's Church tower is the oldest building in Peebles (1195). Traquair House, five miles south-east of Peebles, is claimed to be the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland. While not strictly a castle, it is built in the style of a fortified mansion. Neidpath Castle is an L-plan rubble-built tower house, overlooking the River Tweed about a miles west of Peebles.
Neidpath castle
Glentress Forest, a vast woodland of Scots Pine, Douglas firs, spruce and larch, spreads out over the southerly fells of the Moorfoot Hills immediately to the north of Peebles and the valley of the River Tweed.
Soonhope burn and the Glentress Forest
Downstream from Peebles, the Tweed heads south-east passing on the west side of the village of Kirkburn. Kailzie Gardens is a delightful walled garden which dates from 1812. The Tweed continues south-east to the small town of Innerleithen at the point the Leithon flows into it. Robert Smail's Printing Works (NTS) is the Victorian printing works founded in 1866 by Robert Smail, now open as a museum. The area occupied by the town has been inhabited since pre-Roman times. The remains of an Iron-Age hill fort are visible atop Caerlee Hill, in the form of defensive ditchworks. After Innerleithen, the Tweed flows west into Selkirkshire.
The caseroom at Robert Smail's Printing Works, Innerleithen
The village of West Linton is the largest settlement in the north of the county. The Whipman is an annual summer festival held in the village, and is one of the oldest festivals in the Middle Shires. North-west of the village are the Pentland Hills, with such peaks as Mount Maw (1,753 feet), Byrehope Mount (1,752 feet) and King Seat (1,521 feet). The North Esk rises in Cairnmuir and forms the boundary between Midlothian and Peeblesshire for four delightfully scenic miles. West of West Linton, the South Medwin marks the boundary with Lanarkshire. The rivers are well stocked and popular with anglers.
The remains of numerous hill forts around the burgh of Peebles indicate occupation in the early Iron Age. There are standing stones near the confluence of Lyne Water and the Tweed. The Romans left traces of their military rule in the camp at Lyne, known as Randal’s Walls.
Randal's Walls, the Roman fort at Lyne, with Torbank Hill in the background
King David I made the district a deanery in the archdeaconry of Peebles, and it afterwards formed part of the diocese of Glasgow. Towards the middle of the 12th century Peeblesshire was made a sheriffdom, being placed under the jurisdiction of two sheriffs, one of whom was settled at Traquair and the other at Peebles. In mediæval times a series of peels (fortified towers) were erected; the best-preserved is that of Neidpath Castle. The growth of woollen textile manufacture in the 18th and 19th centuries expanded the county's economy, though its traditional industries of livestock raising and forestry still predominate.
Type: Historic County
Lat, Long: 55.656545,-3.157395
Grid Reference: NT272409
Country: Scotland
Explore Peeblesshire on WikishireThe Tweed rises at Tweed's Well, at the southern edge of Peeblesshire and runs north through the shire in a steep valley between the mountains, entering the fine area of Upper Tweeddale. This river has given Peeblesshire its alternative name: Tweeddale. The river flows past the village of Tweedsmuir, set in the valley with the rolling Cheviot Hills and burns on both sides. The highest point of Peeblesshire lies east of Tweedsmuir, Broad Law at 2,756 feet. Close by and almost as high is Cramalt Craig (2,723 feet).
Cramalt Craig to Broad Law
The Tweed continues northwards until reaches its northernmost point by Peebles itself. Peebles, the only town of any size in the county, was once a popular spa town. It is still a fine holiday destination. St Andrew's Church tower is the oldest building in Peebles (1195). Traquair House, five miles south-east of Peebles, is claimed to be the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland. While not strictly a castle, it is built in the style of a fortified mansion. Neidpath Castle is an L-plan rubble-built tower house, overlooking the River Tweed about a miles west of Peebles.
Neidpath castle
Glentress Forest, a vast woodland of Scots Pine, Douglas firs, spruce and larch, spreads out over the southerly fells of the Moorfoot Hills immediately to the north of Peebles and the valley of the River Tweed.
Soonhope burn and the Glentress Forest
Downstream from Peebles, the Tweed heads south-east passing on the west side of the village of Kirkburn. Kailzie Gardens is a delightful walled garden which dates from 1812. The Tweed continues south-east to the small town of Innerleithen at the point the Leithon flows into it. Robert Smail's Printing Works (NTS) is the Victorian printing works founded in 1866 by Robert Smail, now open as a museum. The area occupied by the town has been inhabited since pre-Roman times. The remains of an Iron-Age hill fort are visible atop Caerlee Hill, in the form of defensive ditchworks. After Innerleithen, the Tweed flows west into Selkirkshire.
The caseroom at Robert Smail's Printing Works, Innerleithen
The village of West Linton is the largest settlement in the north of the county. The Whipman is an annual summer festival held in the village, and is one of the oldest festivals in the Middle Shires. North-west of the village are the Pentland Hills, with such peaks as Mount Maw (1,753 feet), Byrehope Mount (1,752 feet) and King Seat (1,521 feet). The North Esk rises in Cairnmuir and forms the boundary between Midlothian and Peeblesshire for four delightfully scenic miles. West of West Linton, the South Medwin marks the boundary with Lanarkshire. The rivers are well stocked and popular with anglers.
The remains of numerous hill forts around the burgh of Peebles indicate occupation in the early Iron Age. There are standing stones near the confluence of Lyne Water and the Tweed. The Romans left traces of their military rule in the camp at Lyne, known as Randal’s Walls.
Randal's Walls, the Roman fort at Lyne, with Torbank Hill in the background
King David I made the district a deanery in the archdeaconry of Peebles, and it afterwards formed part of the diocese of Glasgow. Towards the middle of the 12th century Peeblesshire was made a sheriffdom, being placed under the jurisdiction of two sheriffs, one of whom was settled at Traquair and the other at Peebles. In mediæval times a series of peels (fortified towers) were erected; the best-preserved is that of Neidpath Castle. The growth of woollen textile manufacture in the 18th and 19th centuries expanded the county's economy, though its traditional industries of livestock raising and forestry still predominate.