Selkirk

An historic royal burgh on the edge of the Ettrick Forest where the river flows into the River Tweed and has great angling for salmon and trout.

For more than three centuries cloth has been woven here and before that it was famous for its shoes and the residents are still known as ‘souters’ or shoemakers.
The Souters of Selkirk were ‘requested’ to make 2,000 pairs of ‘shoon’ for Prince Charlie’s army in 1745.

The market square is actually a triangle and is dominated by the beautiful Town Hall which has a statue of Sir Walter Scott dressed in his attire as sheriff of the county.
In the High Street is a statue of Mungo Park, the African explorer and a memorial to the battle of Flodden with the simple inscription ‘O Flodden Field’.

The Southern Uplands are drained by the Tweed, Ettrick and Yarrow and cover part of the old Ettrick Forest and Broad Law stands at 2,754ft.

Sir Walter Scott’s home Abbotsford lies a few miles northeast of the town. He is buried at Dryburgh Abbey, 5 miles to the east.