N for Newark Castle & Nature in "My Scottish Borders"

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"My Scottish Borders"

  N is for:

NEWARK CASTLE and NATURE 

Newark Castle high above the Yarrow Water, south of Selkirk was also the setting for Sir Walter Scott's  ""Lay of the Last Minstrel"  with the lovely description:

"He passed where Newark's stately tower

Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower". 

Thought to be a royal hunting lodge, Newark was referred to in a charter granted to Archibald,  Earl of Douglas in 1423.  It later fell into the hands of the Scotts of Buccleuch.  Last to live there was the Scott heiress Ann who married  the ill fated Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles ll,  beheaded in 1685 for treason. 


NATURE

The heron here is a familiar site on the Slitrig Water in Hawick. 

Cowdenknowes Wood, Earlston, Berwickshire

Nature's autumn colours in Wilton Lodge Park, Hawick 

With grateful thanks to Louise for letting me feature this stunning photograph

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Sunset over Hawick 

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O is for:

OXFORD CONNECTIONS

The Scottish Borders 

The old counties of Berwickshire, Peeblesshire, Roxburghshire & Selkirkshire  

Do take a look at earlier  posts in "My Scottish Borders

A-Z Challenge Preview
A-Z Challenge A - Abbeys,Abbotsford and Armstrongs
A-Z Challenge B - Border Reivers, Border Ballads and Blackmail

A-Z Challenge C - Common Ridings and Carter Bar 

A-Z Challenge D - Dryburgh Abbey,  Duns Scotus and The Douglas Tragedy 

A-Z Challenge E - Elliots, Earlston, Enigma Hero and Eyemouth Tart 

A-Z Challenge F - Flodden, Fletcher and Flowers of the Forest 

A-Z Challenge G - A Green & Pleasant Land and Galashiels 
A-Z Challenge H - Hermitage Castle and Hawick

A-Z Challenge I - Inspirational Land of Poets James Hogg and Will Ogilvie 

A-Z Challenge J -Jedburgh, Jethart Justice and Jethart Snails  

A-Z Challenge K - Kaleidoscope, Kelso and Kinmont Willie
A-Z Challenge M - Muckle Mou'ed Meg and Melrose