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unusual facts about Selkirk, Scottish Borders



Abbey Thickson

Abbey Rose Thickson (born June 17, 2000) is an American actress, who is originally from Selkirk.

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.

East Brookfield, Massachusetts

The CSX Boston-to-Selkirk rail line runs parallel to Main Street through this section.

EaStMAN

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

Flowers of the Forest

It concerns a financial crisis that had ruined the fortunes of a number of the Selkirk Lairds.

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.

Humboldt No. 370, Saskatchewan

The Humboldt Telegraph Station Site (constructed in 1876) built as part of the Dominion Telegraph Line, the station is on the original site for Humboldt, connecting Eastern Canada with Selkirk with Fort Livingstone, Clark's Crossing, Battleford, Edmonton and British Columbia.

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.

ITV Border

ITV Border also maintains a bureau for Scottish Parliament coverage in Edinburgh with reporters and camera crews based locally in Dumfries, Galloway, Kendal, Selkirk and Whitehaven.

ITV News Lookaround

The district reporters announced were Victoria Hoe in Kendal, Hannah Lomas in Carlisle, Lee Madan in Selkirk, Stuart Pollitt in Whitehaven, Olivia Richwald in Dumfries and Kathryn Samson in Edinburgh.

J. B. Selkirk

They lived at 'Cascade', a house overlooking the Tweed midway between Selkirk and Galashiels before moving to Thornfield, Selkirk which was built by himself in 1870.

Krell Hill

Its location on the hillside gives the houses views of the South Hill, Palouse, West Plains including the tower at Spokane International Airport, and the Selkirk mountains to the north and northwest of the city.

Lord Napier

Between 1683 and 1686, the Lords of Napier also held the Nicolson Baronetcy, of Carnock in the County of Stirling, and since 1725 the Scott Baronetcy, of Thirlestane in the County of Selkirk, both baronetcies created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.

Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986

The selection for 1986 was no exception; Sherisse Laurence, a little-known children's television host from Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada, was picked to sing Luxembourg's entry at the Contest that year, "L'amour de ma vie" (The love of my life).

Manor Water

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

Manus O'Cahan's Regiment

David Leslie, a leading highly experienced soldier and Covenanter, attacked O'Cahan's men as they were just waking up at an encampment in Philiphaugh (near to the site of today's Selkirk Rugby football club ) on 13 September 1645.

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.

Marooning

Selkirk, a sailor with the Dampier expedition, was worried about the unseaworthy condition of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and had argued with the captain until he left him ashore on the island where they had briefly stopped for water and food supplies.

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.

Pelly Crossing, Yukon

The Selkirk First Nation community was established as a ferry crossing and a highway construction camp when the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse to Dawson City was built in 1950.

Pembina Trail

It refers to the easternmost of the three principal routes from Pembina and Fort Garry in the former Red River Colony of Manitoba (then known as Assiniboia or the Selkirk Colony) to Mendota and St. Paul.

Quair Water

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

Robert Gillan

On July 7, 1829 he was licensed to preach the gospel by the presbytery of Selkirk, and ordained minister to the congregation at Stamfordham, Northumberland, in October 1830.

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.

Sagkeeng First Nation

The first was north of Selkirk, Manitoba and the second, and more permanent one, on the north side of the Winnipeg River near Lake Winnipeg.

Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise has approximately 1,100 staff and operates from 13 offices - Aberdeen, Bellshill, Clydebank, Dundee, Dumfries, Edinburgh, two in Glasgow, Glenrothes, Kilmarnock, Paisley, Selkirk and Stirling.

Selkirk F.C.

The same year an extraordinary request was received by the club, Melrose Football Club (later Melrose RFC), invited seven players to represent Selkirk in a new kind of game—seven-a-side rugby.

Selkirk—Interlake

In addition to Selkirk, the riding includes the communities of St. Andrews, St. Clements, Rockwood, Woodlands, Brokenhead, Stonewall and the R.M. of Bifrost

Sheriff Hutton Castle

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

Southern Scots

Towns where South Scots dialects are spoken include Earlston, Galashiels (Gala or Galae), Hawick, Jedburgh (Jethart), Kelso (Kelsae), Langholm, Lockerbie, Newcastleton (Copshaw or Copshawholm), St. Boswells (Bosells) and Selkirk.

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.

Tibbie Tamson

Despite this however, each year as a matter of tradition and as way of an apology members of the Selkirk Common Riding Organisation place a wreath in remembrance of her.

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

The area provides a high quality wildlife habitat in an ecosystems that represents an ecological transition between the dry, sagebrush dotted grasslands of the Columbia Basin up toward the timbered Selkirk and Bitterroot Mountain Ranges that rise up to the east.

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.

William Bompas

William Carpenter Bompas (20 January 1834 – 9 June 1906) was a Church of England clergyman and missionary in northwestern Canada, first Anglican bishop of the Athabasca diocese, then of the Mackenzie River diocese and then of the Selkirk (Yukon) diocese as these dioceses were successively carved out of the original Rupert's Land diocese.


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