Scottish Borders (skotsk : the Mairches , lit. 'the Marches '; skotsk gælisk : Crìochan na h-Alba ) er en af de 32 kommuner eller enhedslig myndigheder council areas i Skotland . [1] Det grænser op til City of Edinburgh , Dumfries and Galloway , East Lothian , Midlothian , South Lanarkshire , West Lothian andog mod sydvest, syd og øst de engelske counties Cumbria og Northumberland . Administrationscentret ligger i Newtown St Boswells .
Scottish Borders
Termen Scottish Borders, eller normalt blot "the Borders", bruges også til at betegne områderne i det sydlige Skotland og nordlige England omkring den engelsk-skotske grænse .
De største byer i Scottish Borders i 2011 er:[2]
Galashiels : 14.994
Hawick : 14.294
Peebles : 8.376
Selkirk : 5.784
Kelso : 5.639
Jedburgh : 4.030
Eyemouth : 3.546
Innerleithen : 3.031
Duns : 2.753
Melrose : 2.307
Coldstream : 1.946
Earlston : 1.779
Abbotsford House
Berwickshire Coastal Path
Bowhill House
Cheviot Hills
Cessford Burn
Coldingham Bay
Dawyck Botanic Garden
Dryburgh Abbey – Historic Scotland
Duns Castle
Edin's Hall Broch
Ettrick Forest
Eyemouth
Floors Castle
Glentress Forest – Forest Enterprise
Greenknowe Tower
Harmony Garden – National Trust for Scotland
Hawkshaw – ancestral home of the Porteous family
Hermitage Castle – Historic Scotland
Jedburgh Abbey – Historic Scotland
Kailzie Gardens
Kelso Abbey
Kirna House (The Kirna, previously Grangehill)
Lammermuir Hills
Lauderdale
Manderston
Megget Reservoir
Mellerstain House
Melrose Abbey – Historic Scotland
Mire Loch
Monteviot
Morebattle
Neidpath Castle
Nisbet, Berwickshire
Nisbet, Roxburghshire
Paxton House
Pennine Way – National Trails
Priorwood Garden – National Trust for Scotland
Robert Smail's Printing Works – National Trust for Scotland
Scots' dike
Smailholm Tower – Historic Scotland
Southern Upland Way – National Trails
St. Abbs Head
St. Mary's Loch
St. Ronans Wells
Teviotdale
Thirlestane Castle
Traquair House
Trimontium and the Eildons
Union Bridge
Waterloo Monument
Wedderburn Castle