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  1. Late afternoon dog walk. I love this view, looking across north Northumberland to the Borders and the three peaks of the Eildon.

    On those distant slopes, Thomas the Rhymer met the fairy queen (or 'queen of an unco' land' as she was in the oldest version we have) and went with her into the hills.

    There, many years later, Canobie Dick tried and failed to wake the sleeping King Arthur in a torchlit chamber under the same hills.

    A landmark visible from virtually every raised point in the whole region and easily identifiable, no wonder it was used as the site of a Bronze and later Iron Age settlement, then the Roman fort of Trimontium, and went down in legend as a place of magic and mystery.

    #Northumberland #ScottishBorders #Folklore #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #EildonHills #History #LandscapeHistory @folklore

  2. Walkers Are Welcome Town - Melrose

    Melrose is a small town in the central Borders situated at the foot of the Eildon Hills, close to the river Tweed. It has excellent visitor facilities and the local path network provides the perfect opportunity to explore the surrounding landscape and it’s many historical connections together with our paths booklet.

    walkersarewelcome.org.uk/waw-t

    #WalkersAreWelcome #Melrose #RiverTweed #EildonHills #Borders #Scotland #Hiking #Mountains #Walking #Ramble