Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.

* List of places in the Scottish Borders

Category: Listed buildings in the Scottish Borders

Category: Gardens in the Scottish Borders

Category: Historic house museums in the Scottish Borders

Category: People from the Scottish Borders

The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.

** A Scottish Borders tradition with a repertoire heavy in hornpipes and with heavy use of double stops.

The cairns and Megalithic monuments continued into the Bronze age, and hill forts started to appear, such as Eildon Hill near Melrose in the Scottish Borders, which goes back to around 1000 BC and which accommodated several hundred houses on a fortified hilltop.

Hawick ( ;, ) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland.

* List of places in the Scottish Borders

* Burnfoot, Scottish Borders

* Old Photographs Of Hawick And The Scottish Borders

Category: Towns in the Scottish Borders

Category: People associated with the Scottish Borders

The game is also played extensively in the small town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders, mainly in the local primary school playground, where it is favored to more traditional childhood past-times such as ' British bulldogs ' and ' Kiss, Cuddle and Torture '.

Scott's childhood at Sandyknowes, in the shadow of Smailholm Tower, introduced him to the tales and folklore of the Scottish Borders.

As a boy, youth and young man, Scott was fascinated by the oral traditions of the Scottish Borders.

In 1796, Scott's friend James Ballantyne founded a printing press in Kelso, in the Scottish Borders.

Although Scott had attained celebrity through his poetry, he soon tried his hand at documenting his researches into the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders in prose fiction – stories and novels – at the time still considered aesthetically inferior to poetry ( above all to such classical genres as the epic or poetic tragedy ) as a mimetic vehicle for portraying historical events.

He returned to Scotland and, in September 1832, died ( under unexplained circumstances ) at Abbotsford, the home he had designed and had built, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.

* Waterloo Monument, a 150 foot memorial to the battle in the Scottish Borders

* 4, 732 km < sup > 2 </ sup > — Scottish Borders, Scotland

* Scottish Borders, West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian and East Lothian cover the extreme north

Significant strands of this infrastructure include: The Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh College of Art, Talbot Rice Gallery ( University of Edinburgh ) and the Edinburgh Annuale.

He launched numerous initiatives to promote Scotland, attracting businesses and new jobs through his new Scottish Council of Industry.

A long-standing supporter of the Home Rule movement, Johnston persuaded Churchill of the need to counter the nationalist threat north of the border and created a Scottish Council of State and a Council of Industry as institutions to devolve some power away from Whitehall.

Eventually UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook persuaded the Americans to accept a trial of the suspects in the Netherlands under Scottish law, with the UN Security Council agreeing to suspend sanctions as soon as the suspects arrived in the Netherlands for trial.

In the Scottish Rite the central authority is called a Supreme Council.

In January 2007, the Shetland Islands Council signed a partnership agreement with Scottish and Southern Energy for a 200-turbine wind farm and subsea cable.

An active Mason and member of the Grand Lodge of Indiana, by 1898 he was a Master Mason and had risen to the thirty-third degree in the Scottish Rite, the highest level of the order, and had become a member of its Supreme Council.

One of the Moorfoot Hills, it is located in the parish of Heriot in the Scottish Borders Council Area.

Badenoch ( from the Scottish Gaelic Bàideanach meaning drowned land ) is a traditional district which today forms part of Badenoch and Strathspey, an area of Highland Council, in Scotland, bounded on the north by the Monadhliath Mountains, on the east by the Cairngorms and Braemar, on the south by Atholl and the Grampians, and on the west by Lochaber.

The Council is currently controlled by the Scottish National Party.

* Judges of the Scottish Court of Session, known as ' Lords of Council and Session '.

The campus has been selected as the headquarters for a number of sports agencies including the Sportscotland Institute of Sport, the Commonwealth Games Council for Scotland, Scottish Swimming and triathlonscotland.

UK universities have a statutory obligation to support their students in the establishment of some form of students ' union ( sometimes also called a " students ' association " or " guild of students ", and, in the Scottish Ancients, a Students ' Representative Council.

The V & A is in discussion with the University of Dundee, University of Abertay, Dundee City Council and the Scottish Government with a view to opening a new £ 43m gallery in Dundee which would use the V & A brand although it would be funded through and operated independently.

The decision to notify an SSSI is made by the official nature conservation body ( the appropriate conservation body ) for that part of the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage or the Countryside Council for Wales.

In Scotland, its functions were merged with those of the Countryside Commission for Scotland to form Scottish Natural Heritage, and similarly in Wales there was a merger to form the Countryside Council for Wales.

As a result of the 2007 election, the Scottish Liberal Democrats lost control of East Dunbartonshire Council, with one of the primary grievances amongst the electorate being fortnightly waste collection, after the introduction of kerbside collections for recycling plastics, glass, metals and paper.

Unfortunately, the plan to connect Ocean Terminal and the Scottish Executive building area by the new Edinburgh Trams by the Port of Leith tram stop has been shelved after dispute between Edinburgh Council and the contractors.

Countryside Council of Wales and Scottish Natural Heritage

It is also represented on Fife Council by Keith Legg ( Scottish Liberal Democrats ), Douglas Chapman ( Scottish National Party ) and Pat Callaghan ( Scottish Labour Party.

This failure to honour the conditions of the Berwick treaty allowed Edward to continue to press for a Plantagenet successor to David — terms that were totally rejected by the Scottish Council and probably by Robert himself.