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unusual facts about Lanton, Scottish Borders



Bedrule

First Lieutenant of HMS Petard, Anthony Fasson (a native of Lanton, Scottish Borders) died while recovering Enigma code books from a sinking German submarine.

Border Counties Railway

The Border Counties Railway was a railway line in Northumberland, England, with a small section in Roxburghshire, in the Borders region of Scotland.

Broughton Gallery

The Broughton Gallery is an art gallery in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the village of Broughton.

Craigroyston F.C.

Although associated with a club from the Scottish Borders, Melrose and several of his team emanated from the capital.

Crystal Rig Wind Farm

Crystal Rig Wind Farm is an operational onshore wind farm located on the Lammermuir Hills in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland.

EaStMAN

EaStMAN connects universities and colleges to one another and to Janet in the Edinburgh, Stirling, West Lothian and Borders areas of Scotland.

Galashiels Baptist Church

Galashiels Baptist Church is located in the town of Galashiels, in the heart of the Scottish Borders.

Horsburgh Castle

Horsburgh Castle, also known as Horsbrugh Castle or Horsbrugh Tower, is a ruined tower house castle by the River Tweed, on the A72 road from Peebles to Galashiels, near Glentress in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

Hylton Philipson

A visit to Japan on the way back from the Test series in Australia in 1895 inspired him to apply knowledge that he acquired there to estate of Stobo Castle, near Peebles, in the Scottish Borders.

Manor Water

The Manor Water is a river in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

Marchmont Herald

The office was first mentioned in 1438, and the title is derived from the royal castle of Marchmont, an older name for Roxburgh Castle in the Scottish Borders.

Melrose RFC

Melrose Rugby Football Club, located and founded in the town of Melrose in the Scottish Borders in 1877, is one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world.

Newtongrange

Newtongrange will soon see the return of the Waverley Line with a new station being built near Murderdean Road, giving rail access to the Borders, Edinburgh Waverley station and eventually Carlisle.

Northumberland National Park

The Northumberland National Park covers a large area of Western Northumberland and borders the English county of Cumbria and the Scottish county of The Scottish borders.

Oliver

The main territory in which the Oliver surname lived and exercised control was Jedforest, an indeterminate area situated south west and south of the Border town of Jedburgh.

Quair Water

The Quair Water is a tributary of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

Rosemary Payne

Christine Rosemary Payne (born Christine Rosemary Charters, 19 May 1933 in Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland) is a female discus thrower, who represented Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale

It consists of the committee areas of Eildon, Cheviot and Teviot and Liddesdale (the former (1975—1996) local government districts of Roxburgh and Ettrick and Lauderdale) within the Scottish Borders council area.

Rugby tens

The main origin of rugby tens is perhaps the abbreviated code of rugby sevens which originated in the Scottish Borders, and was very successfully exported to produce the Hong Kong Sevens, where it still runs, and is a great missionary force for rugby in Asia.

Sheriff Hutton Castle

:not to be confused with Hutton Castle in the Scottish Borders

Sunday Sun

The Sunday Sun is a regional Sunday newspaper in North East England, Cumbria and the Scottish Borders, published in Newcastle Upon Tyne by Trinity Mirror.

Wauchope Forest

Wauchope Forest is a forest on the Rule Water, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, south of Hawick, and including the A6088, the A68 and the B6357, as well as Newcastleton, Bonchester Bridge, Hobkirk, Southdean, Hyndlee, Carter Bar, Abbotrule, Chesters, Scottish Borders.

Whitsome

Whitsome is a small rural village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the B6437, near Duns, Fogo, Ladykirk, Leitholm and Swinton.


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