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A village sitting beside Quair Water and beyond the village is the witch-haunted Satyr Sykes and the beautiful Plora Wood with remnants of the old Ettrick Forest.
Southwest of the church which has outside gallery stairs lies ‘Glen’ with its fine gardens and early home of the 1st Countess of Oxford and Asquith.
To the east rises Minchmuir to 1,856ft and offers magnificent views of the surrounding countryside crossed by an old drover’s track linking Peebles to Selkirk and was used as an escape route by Montrose in 1645 after the battle of Philiphaugh.
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- Landmark