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unusual facts about Reston, Scottish Borders



Ana Carolina Reston

In January 2004 Reston made her first overseas trip to Guangzhou, China.

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.

Cybercast News Service

Cybercast News Service (also known as CNSNews.com) is an American news website founded by L. Brent Bozell III and owned by Media Research Center, Bozell's Reston, Virginia-based organization.

Dan Gresswell

He married, 18 December 1845, Anne Beastall of Reston, near Louth, by whom he had eight sons and seven daughters.

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.

History of Python

In 1995, Van Rossum continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) in Reston, Virginia whence he released several versions.

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.

Johnnie Carson

Carson is married, has three children, and resides in Reston, Virginia.

Kettler Capitals Iceplex

The building was designed by William R. Drury of the Reston, Virginia based firm, Architecture, Incorporated, and completed in November 2006 at a cost of $42.8 million.

Leaderfoot Viaduct

The viaduct was opened on 16 November 1863 to carry the Berwickshire Railway, which connected Reston (on the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh) with St Boswells (on the Edinburgh to Carlisle "Waverley Line"), via Duns and Greenlaw.

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.

May McNeer

May Yonge McNeer Ward (1902 in Tampa, Florida – 1994 in Reston, Virginia) was an American journalist and author of a variety of subjects, many of which were illustrated by her husband, Lynd Ward, whom she married a week after his graduation from Columbia University in 1926.

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.

Newstead, Scottish Borders

In 1865 the magnificent Leaderfoot Viaduct of nineteen arches was constructed for the St Boswells Junction to Reston section of the Berwickshire Railway, a line which closed in 1948.

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.

Paul Mulvey

After his playing career, Mulvey returned to the Washington, D.C.-area and settled in Reston, Virginia, where he bought a tennis club and turned it into a hockey facility with two rinks.

Quair Water

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

Reston, Scottish Borders

It is located on the ECML railway line, which runs between London, King's Cross and Edinburgh, Waverley station.

Robert Simon

Robert E. Simon (born 1914), real estate and business developer who designed a planned community in Reston, Virginia

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.

SB Nation

ComScore, the Reston-based tracker of consumer Internet habits, tallied 5.8 million unique visitors to SB Nation Web sites during the month of November 2010.

Settlement movement

For example, James Rossant of Conklin + Rossant agreed with Robert E. Simon's social vision and consciously sought to mix economic backgrounds when drawing up the master plan for Reston, Virginia.

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.

Verisign

is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs, and .edu top-level domains.

VSNL International Canada

After the American buyout, the head office was in Reston, Virginia.

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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