CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html> <html class="client-nojs vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-enabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-sticky-header-enabled vector-toc-available" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Scottish Borders - Wikipedia</title> <script>(function(){var className="client-js vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-enabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-sticky-header-enabled vector-toc-available";var cookie=document.cookie.match(/(?:^|; )enwikimwclientpreferences=([^;]+)/);if(cookie){cookie[1].split('%2C').forEach(function(pref){className=className.replace(new RegExp('(^| )'+pref.replace(/-clientpref-\w+$|[^\w-]+/g,'')+'-clientpref-\\w+( |$)'),'$1'+pref+'$2');});}document.documentElement.className=className;}());RLCONF={"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy","wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgRequestId":"dfc875aa-170e-4e6d-a6a6-ec1ed8daf45d","wgCanonicalNamespace":"","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":0,"wgPageName":"Scottish_Borders","wgTitle":"Scottish Borders","wgCurRevisionId":1281266700,"wgRevisionId":1281266700,"wgArticleId":142930,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":["Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas","CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown","Articles with short description","Short description matches Wikidata","Use dmy dates from September 2024","Use British English from September 2024","Short description is different from Wikidata","Coordinates on Wikidata","Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference","Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica","Commons category link is on Wikidata","Webarchive template wayback links","Scottish Borders","Council areas of Scotland","Regions of Scotland","Northumbria","Southern Uplands","States and territories established in 1996","1996 establishments in Scotland"],"wgPageViewLanguage":"en","wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgRelevantPageName":"Scottish_Borders","wgRelevantArticleId":142930,"wgIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRestrictionEdit":[],"wgRestrictionMove":[],"wgNoticeProject":"wikipedia","wgCiteReferencePreviewsActive":false,"wgFlaggedRevsParams":{"tags":{"status":{"levels":1}}},"wgMediaViewerOnClick":true,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":true,"wgPopupsFlags":0,"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en"},"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":true,"watchlist":true,"tagline":false,"nearby":true},"wgWMESchemaEditAttemptStepOversample":false,"wgWMEPageLength":40000,"wgCoordinates":{"lat":55.36,"lon":-2.49},"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":true,"wgULSPosition":"interlanguage","wgULSisCompactLinksEnabled":false,"wgVector2022LanguageInHeader":true,"wgULSisLanguageSelectorEmpty":false,"wgWikibaseItemId":"Q211113","wgCheckUserClientHintsHeadersJsApi":["brands","architecture","bitness","fullVersionList","mobile","model","platform","platformVersion"],"GEHomepageSuggestedEditsEnableTopics":true,"wgGETopicsMatchModeEnabled":false,"wgGELevelingUpEnabledForUser":false}; RLSTATE={"ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","site.styles":"ready","user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"loading","ext.cite.styles":"ready","skins.vector.search.codex.styles":"ready","skins.vector.styles":"ready","skins.vector.icons":"ready","jquery.tablesorter.styles":"ready","jquery.makeCollapsible.styles":"ready","ext.wikimediamessages.styles":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript":"ready","ext.uls.interlanguage":"ready","wikibase.client.init":"ready"};RLPAGEMODULES=["ext.cite.ux-enhancements","mediawiki.page.media","ext.scribunto.logs","site","mediawiki.page.ready","jquery.tablesorter","jquery.makeCollapsible","mediawiki.toc","skins.vector.js","ext.centralNotice.geoIP","ext.centralNotice.startUp","ext.gadget.ReferenceTooltips","ext.gadget.switcher","ext.gadget.WikiMiniAtlas","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","mmv.bootstrap","ext.popups","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.echo.centralauth","ext.eventLogging","ext.wikimediaEvents","ext.navigationTiming","ext.uls.interface","ext.cx.eventlogging.campaigns","ext.cx.uls.quick.actions","wikibase.client.vector-2022","ext.checkUser.clientHints","ext.quicksurveys.init","ext.growthExperiments.SuggestedEditSession"];</script> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.loader.impl(function(){return["user.options@12s5i",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.tokens.set({"patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"}); }];});});</script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.cite.styles%7Cext.uls.interlanguage%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cext.wikimediamessages.styles%7Cjquery.makeCollapsible.styles%7Cjquery.tablesorter.styles%7Cskins.vector.icons%2Cstyles%7Cskins.vector.search.codex.styles%7Cwikibase.client.init&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <script async="" src="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector-2022"></script> <meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.22"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin-when-cross-origin"> <meta name="robots" content="max-image-preview:standard"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg/1200px-Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg.png"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="1200"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="1113"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg/800px-Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg.png"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="800"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="742"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg/640px-Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg.png"> <meta property="og:image:width" content="640"> <meta property="og:image:height" content="594"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=1120"> <meta property="og:title" content="Scottish Borders - Wikipedia"> <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <link rel="preconnect" href="//upload.wikimedia.org"> <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit this page" href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/static/apple-touch/wikipedia.png"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico"> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/rest.php/v1/search" title="Wikipedia (en)"> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders"> <link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Wikipedia Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom"> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//meta.wikimedia.org" /> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="auth.wikimedia.org"> </head> <body class="skin--responsive skin-vector skin-vector-search-vue mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-0 ns-subject mw-editable page-Scottish_Borders rootpage-Scottish_Borders skin-vector-2022 action-view"><a class="mw-jump-link" href="#bodyContent">Jump to content</a> <div class="vector-header-container"> <header class="vector-header mw-header"> <div class="vector-header-start"> <nav class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-main-menu-dropdown vector-button-flush-left vector-button-flush-right" title="Main menu" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Main menu" > <label id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-label" for="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-menu mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-menu"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Main menu</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-main-menu" class="vector-main-menu vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-main-menu-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="main-menu-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-main-menu" data-pinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Main menu</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-navigation" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-navigation" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Navigation </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-mainpage-description" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page [z]" accesskey="z"><span>Main page</span></a></li><li id="n-contents" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents" title="Guides to browsing Wikipedia"><span>Contents</span></a></li><li id="n-currentevents" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Current_events" title="Articles related to current events"><span>Current events</span></a></li><li id="n-randompage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Random" title="Visit a randomly selected article [x]" accesskey="x"><span>Random article</span></a></li><li id="n-aboutsite" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About" title="Learn about Wikipedia and how it works"><span>About Wikipedia</span></a></li><li id="n-contactpage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us" title="How to contact Wikipedia"><span>Contact us</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-interaction" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-interaction" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Contribute </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-help" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:Contents" title="Guidance on how to use and edit Wikipedia"><span>Help</span></a></li><li id="n-introduction" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" title="Learn how to edit Wikipedia"><span>Learn to edit</span></a></li><li id="n-portal" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal" title="The hub for editors"><span>Community portal</span></a></li><li id="n-recentchanges" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes to Wikipedia [r]" accesskey="r"><span>Recent changes</span></a></li><li id="n-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:File_upload_wizard" title="Add images or other media for use on Wikipedia"><span>Upload file</span></a></li><li id="n-specialpages" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages"><span>Special pages</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" class="mw-logo"> <img class="mw-logo-icon" src="/static/images/icons/wikipedia.png" alt="" aria-hidden="true" height="50" width="50"> <span class="mw-logo-container skin-invert"> <img class="mw-logo-wordmark" alt="Wikipedia" src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg" style="width: 7.5em; height: 1.125em;"> <img class="mw-logo-tagline" alt="The Free Encyclopedia" src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-tagline-en.svg" width="117" height="13" style="width: 7.3125em; height: 0.8125em;"> </span> </a> </div> <div class="vector-header-end"> <div id="p-search" role="search" class="vector-search-box-vue vector-search-box-collapses vector-search-box-show-thumbnail vector-search-box-auto-expand-width vector-search-box"> <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only search-toggle" title="Search Wikipedia [f]" accesskey="f"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-search mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-search"></span> <span>Search</span> </a> <div class="vector-typeahead-search-container"> <div class="cdx-typeahead-search cdx-typeahead-search--show-thumbnail cdx-typeahead-search--auto-expand-width"> <form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform" class="cdx-search-input cdx-search-input--has-end-button"> <div id="simpleSearch" class="cdx-search-input__input-wrapper" data-search-loc="header-moved"> <div class="cdx-text-input cdx-text-input--has-start-icon"> <input class="cdx-text-input__input" type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search Wikipedia" aria-label="Search Wikipedia" autocapitalize="sentences" title="Search Wikipedia [f]" accesskey="f" id="searchInput" > <span class="cdx-text-input__icon cdx-text-input__start-icon"></span> </div> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Special:Search"> </div> <button class="cdx-button cdx-search-input__end-button">Search</button> </form> </div> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-user-links vector-user-links-wide" aria-label="Personal tools"> <div class="vector-user-links-main"> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-preferences" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-userpage" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown " title="Change the appearance of the page's font size, width, and color" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Appearance" > <label id="vector-appearance-dropdown-label" for="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-appearance mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-appearance"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Appearance</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-notifications" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-overflow" class="vector-menu mw-portlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/?wmf_source=donate&wmf_medium=sidebar&wmf_campaign=en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en" class=""><span>Donate</span></a> </li> <li id="pt-createaccount-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Scottish+Borders" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory" class=""><span>Create account</span></a> </li> <li id="pt-login-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Scottish+Borders" title="You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. [o]" accesskey="o" class=""><span>Log in</span></a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-user-menu vector-button-flush-right vector-user-menu-logged-out" title="Log in and more options" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Personal tools" > <label id="vector-user-links-dropdown-label" for="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-ellipsis mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-ellipsis"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Personal tools</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal user-links-collapsible-item" title="User menu" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/?wmf_source=donate&wmf_medium=sidebar&wmf_campaign=en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en"><span>Donate</span></a></li><li id="pt-createaccount" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Scottish+Borders" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-userAdd mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-userAdd"></span> <span>Create account</span></a></li><li id="pt-login" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Scottish+Borders" title="You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. [o]" accesskey="o"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-logIn mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-logIn"></span> <span>Log in</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-user-menu-anon-editor" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-user-menu-anon-editor" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Pages for logged out editors <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" aria-label="Learn more about editing"><span>learn more</span></a> </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-anoncontribs" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyContributions" title="A list of edits made from this IP address [y]" accesskey="y"><span>Contributions</span></a></li><li id="pt-anontalk" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyTalk" title="Discussion about edits from this IP address [n]" accesskey="n"><span>Talk</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </header> </div> <div class="mw-page-container"> <div class="mw-page-container-inner"> <div class="vector-sitenotice-container"> <div id="siteNotice"></div> </div> <div class="vector-column-start"> <div class="vector-main-menu-container"> <div id="mw-navigation"> <nav id="mw-panel" class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav id="mw-panel-toc" aria-label="Contents" data-event-name="ui.sidebar-toc" class="mw-table-of-contents-container vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-toc-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-toc" class="vector-toc vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-toc-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-pinned" data-feature-name="toc-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-toc" > <h2 class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Contents</h2> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-toc.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-toc.unpin">hide</button> </div> <ul class="vector-toc-contents" id="mw-panel-toc-list"> <li id="toc-mw-content-text" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a href="#" class="vector-toc-link"> <div class="vector-toc-text">(Top)</div> </a> </li> <li id="toc-History" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#History"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1</span> <span>History</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-History-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle History subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-History-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Administrative_history" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Administrative_history"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.1</span> <span>Administrative history</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Administrative_history-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Geography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Geography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Geography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Geography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Population" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Population"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Population</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Population-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Language_and_literature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Language_and_literature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Language and literature</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Language_and_literature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Transport</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Media</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Governance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Governance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Governance</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Governance-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Governance subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Governance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Political_control" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Political_control"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Political control</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Political_control-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Leadership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Leadership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Leadership</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Leadership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Premises" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Premises"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Premises</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Premises-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Elections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Elections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4</span> <span>Elections</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Elections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Constituencies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Constituencies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4.1</span> <span>Constituencies</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Constituencies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Wards" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wards"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.5</span> <span>Wards</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wards-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Settlements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Settlements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Settlements</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Settlements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Places_of_interest" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Places_of_interest"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Places of interest</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Places_of_interest-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes_and_references" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes_and_references"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Notes and references</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes_and_references-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-listBullet mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-listBullet"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Toggle the table of contents</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Scottish Borders</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 42 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-42" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">42 languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8" title="Шотландски граници – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Шотландски граници" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scottish_Borders" title="The Scottish Borders – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="The Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gororau%27r_Alban" title="Gororau'r Alban – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Gororau'r Alban" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skotaj_Limoj" title="Skotaj Limoj – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Skotaj Limoj" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B4_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="اسکاتیش بوردرز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اسکاتیش بوردرز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Fiji Hindi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeaghyn_ny_h-Albey" title="Creeaghyn ny h-Albey – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Creeaghyn ny h-Albey" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%EC%BD%94%ED%8B%B0%EC%8B%9C%EB%B3%B4%EB%8D%94%EC%8A%A4" title="스코티시보더스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="스코티시보더스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordersas" title="Bordersas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Bordersas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA" title="スコティッシュ・ボーダーズ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="スコティッシュ・ボーダーズ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%B9%D8%B4_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%88%D8%B1%D8%B2" title="سکاٹش بارڈرز – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="سکاٹش بارڈرز" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%88-%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81" title="Скоттиш-Бордерс – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Скоттиш-Бордерс" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mairches" title="The Mairches – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="The Mairches" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Scottish Borders" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D1%96%D1%88-%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81" title="Скоттіш-Бордерс – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Скоттіш-Бордерс" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%98%87%E6%A0%BC%E8%98%AD%E9%82%8A%E5%8D%80" title="蘇格蘭邊區 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="蘇格蘭邊區" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%98%87%E6%A0%BC%E8%98%AD%E9%82%8A%E5%8D%80" title="蘇格蘭邊區 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="蘇格蘭邊區" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>中文</span></a></li> </ul> <div class="after-portlet after-portlet-lang"><span class="wb-langlinks-edit wb-langlinks-link"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q211113#sitelinks-wikipedia" title="Edit interlanguage links" class="wbc-editpage">Edit links</a></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div class="vector-page-toolbar"> <div class="vector-page-toolbar-container"> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav aria-label="Namespaces"> <div id="p-associated-pages" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-associated-pages" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-nstab-main" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="View the content page [c]" accesskey="c"><span>Article</span></a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Talk:Scottish_Borders" rel="discussion" title="Discuss improvements to the content page [t]" accesskey="t"><span>Talk</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown emptyPortlet" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Change language variant" > <label id="vector-variants-dropdown-label" for="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">English</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-variants" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-variants emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> <div id="right-navigation" class="vector-collapsible"> <nav aria-label="Views"> <div id="p-views" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-views" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-view" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Borders"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-edit" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-history" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=history" title="Past revisions of this page [h]" accesskey="h"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-tools-dropdown" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Tools" > <label id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-label" for="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Tools</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-page-tools" class="vector-page-tools vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-page-tools-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="page-tools-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-page-tools" data-pinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Tools</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-cactions" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-cactions emptyPortlet vector-has-collapsible-items" title="More options" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Actions </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-more-view" class="selected vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Borders"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-edit" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-history" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=history"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-tb" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-tb" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> General </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-whatlinkshere" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Scottish_Borders" title="List of all English Wikipedia pages containing links to this page [j]" accesskey="j"><span>What links here</span></a></li><li id="t-recentchangeslinked" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Scottish_Borders" rel="nofollow" title="Recent changes in pages linked from this page [k]" accesskey="k"><span>Related changes</span></a></li><li id="t-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard" title="Upload files [u]" accesskey="u"><span>Upload file</span></a></li><li id="t-permalink" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&oldid=1281266700" title="Permanent link to this revision of this page"><span>Permanent link</span></a></li><li id="t-info" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=info" title="More information about this page"><span>Page information</span></a></li><li id="t-cite" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CiteThisPage&page=Scottish_Borders&id=1281266700&wpFormIdentifier=titleform" title="Information on how to cite this page"><span>Cite this page</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FScottish_Borders"><span>Get shortened URL</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener-qrcode" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:QrCode&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FScottish_Borders"><span>Download QR code</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-coll-print_export" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-coll-print_export" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Print/export </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="coll-download-as-rl" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=Scottish_Borders&action=show-download-screen" title="Download this page as a PDF file"><span>Download as PDF</span></a></li><li id="t-print" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&printable=yes" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p"><span>Printable version</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-wikibase-otherprojects" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-wikibase-otherprojects" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> In other projects </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-commons mw-list-item"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Scottish_Borders" hreflang="en"><span>Wikimedia Commons</span></a></li><li class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikivoyage mw-list-item"><a href="https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Scottish_Borders" hreflang="en"><span>Wikivoyage</span></a></li><li id="t-wikibase" class="wb-otherproject-link wb-otherproject-wikibase-dataitem mw-list-item"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q211113" title="Structured data on this page hosted by Wikidata [g]" accesskey="g"><span>Wikidata item</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-column-end"> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-appearance" class="vector-appearance vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-appearance-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-pinned" data-feature-name="appearance-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-appearance" data-pinned-container-id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Appearance</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.unpin">hide</button> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> <div id="mw-indicator-coordinates" class="mw-indicator"><div class="mw-parser-output"><span id="coordinates"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Scottish_Borders&params=55_21_36_N_2_29_24_W_region:GB_type:adm2nd"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">55°21′36″N</span> <span class="longitude">2°29′24″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">55.36000°N 2.49000°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">55.36000; -2.49000</span></span></span></a></span></span></div></div> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Council area of Scotland</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"The Borders" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Border_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Border (disambiguation)">Border (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a description of the border, see <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Scottish_border" title="Anglo-Scottish border">Anglo-Scottish border</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Council area in Scotland</div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1043192559">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement{width:23em;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:1.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement td,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement th{border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0.4em 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedtoprow .infobox-full-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedtoprow .infobox-header,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedtoprow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedtoprow .infobox-label,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedtoprow .infobox-below{border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0.4em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedrow .infobox-full-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedrow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedrow .infobox-label{border:0;padding:0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedbottomrow .infobox-full-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedbottomrow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .mergedbottomrow .infobox-label{border-top:0;border-bottom:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .maptable{border:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-header,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-below{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Scottish Borders</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland#Council_areas" title="Subdivisions of Scotland">Council area</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Scottish Borders shown within Scotland"><img alt="Scottish Borders shown within Scotland" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg/250px-Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg/375px-Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg/500px-Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="1322" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Scottish Borders shown within <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Scottish_Borders&params=55_21_36_N_2_29_24_W_region:GB_type:adm2nd"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">55°21′36″N</span> <span class="longitude">2°29′24″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">55.36000°N 2.49000°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">55.36000; -2.49000</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_state" title="Sovereign state">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenancy_areas_of_Scotland" title="Lieutenancy areas of Scotland">Lieutenancy areas</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berwickshire" title="Berwickshire">Berwickshire</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Roxburgh,_Ettrick_and_Lauderdale" title="Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale">Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Tweeddale" title="Tweeddale">Tweeddale</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Unitary authority</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Local_Government_etc._(Scotland)_Act_1994" title="Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994">1 April 1996</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Administrative<span class="nowrap"> </span>HQ</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Council_Headquarters,_Newtown_St_Boswells" title="Council Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells">Council Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-Council_leadership_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Council_leadership-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Scotland" title="Local government in Scotland">Council</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Body</th><td class="infobox-data agent"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Borders_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Borders Council">Scottish Borders Council</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Political_make-up_of_local_councils_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom">Control</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/No_overall_control" title="No overall control">No overall control</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">MPs</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>2 MPs</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/John_Lamont" title="John Lamont">John Lamont</a> (<a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">C</a>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/David_Mundell" title="David Mundell">David Mundell</a> (<a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">C</a>) </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Scottish_Parliament" title="Member of the Scottish Parliament">MSPs</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div>2 MSPs</div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Christine_Grahame" title="Christine Grahame">Christine Grahame</a> (<a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a>) </li><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Rachael_Hamilton" title="Rachael Hamilton">Rachael Hamilton</a> (<a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">C</a>) </li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-popstats_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popstats-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,827 sq mi (4,732 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland#Council_areas" title="Subdivisions of Scotland">6th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2022)<sup id="cite_ref-popstats_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-popstats-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">116,820</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland#Council_areas" title="Subdivisions of Scotland">17th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">60/sq mi (25/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B0" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+0">UTC+0</a> (<a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time" title="Greenwich Mean Time">GMT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B1" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+1">UTC+1</a> (<a href="/wiki/British_Summer_Time" title="British Summer Time">BST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:GB" title="ISO 3166-2:GB">GB-SCB</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/GSS_coding_system" title="GSS coding system">GSS code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">S12000026</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://scotborders.gov.uk">scotborders<wbr />.gov<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Scottish Borders</b> is one of 32 <a href="/wiki/Council_areas_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Council areas of Scotland">council areas of Scotland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is bordered by <a href="/wiki/West_Lothian" title="West Lothian">West Lothian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Midlothian" title="Midlothian">Midlothian</a>, and <a href="/wiki/East_Lothian" title="East Lothian">East Lothian</a> to the north, the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a> to the east, <a href="/wiki/Dumfries_and_Galloway" title="Dumfries and Galloway">Dumfries and Galloway</a> to the south-west, <a href="/wiki/South_Lanarkshire" title="South Lanarkshire">South Lanarkshire</a> to the west, and the English <a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">ceremonial counties</a> of <a href="/wiki/Cumbria" title="Cumbria">Cumbria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Northumberland" title="Northumberland">Northumberland</a> to the south. The largest settlement is <a href="/wiki/Galashiels" title="Galashiels">Galashiels</a>, and the administrative centre is <a href="/wiki/Newtown_St_Boswells" title="Newtown St Boswells">Newtown St Boswells</a>. </p><p>The term "Scottish Borders" is also used for the areas of southern Scotland and northern England that bound the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Scottish_border" title="Anglo-Scottish border">Anglo-Scottish border</a>, namely Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, Northumberland, and Cumbria. The council area occupies approximately the same area as the <a href="/wiki/Shires_of_Scotland" title="Shires of Scotland">historic shires</a> of <a href="/wiki/Berwickshire" title="Berwickshire">Berwickshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peeblesshire" title="Peeblesshire">Peeblesshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roxburghshire" title="Roxburghshire">Roxburghshire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Selkirkshire" title="Selkirkshire">Selkirkshire</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term <a href="/wiki/Border_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Border country">Borders</a> sometimes has a wider use, referring to all of the <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties of Scotland">counties</a> adjoining the English border, also including <a href="/wiki/Dumfriesshire" title="Dumfriesshire">Dumfriesshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kirkcudbrightshire" title="Kirkcudbrightshire">Kirkcudbrightshire</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Northumberland" title="Northumberland">Northumberland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cumberland,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Cumberland, England">Cumberland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Westmorland" title="Westmorland">Westmorland</a> in England. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Roxburghshire" title="Roxburghshire">Roxburghshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Berwickshire" title="Berwickshire">Berwickshire</a> historically bore the brunt of the conflicts with England, both during declared wars such as the <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_Scottish_Independence" title="Wars of Scottish Independence">Wars of Scottish Independence</a>, and armed raids which took place in the times of the <a href="/wiki/Border_Reivers" class="mw-redirect" title="Border Reivers">Border Reivers</a>. During this period, at the western end of the border there was a strip of country, called the "Debatable Land", because the possession of it was a constant source of contention between England and Scotland until its boundaries were adjusted in 1552.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911245_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911245-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, across the region are to be seen the ruins of many castles, abbeys and even towns. The only other important conflict belongs to the <a href="/wiki/Covenanters" title="Covenanters">Covenanters</a>' time, when the <a href="/wiki/James_Graham,_1st_Marquess_of_Montrose" title="James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose">marquess of Montrose</a> was defeated at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Philiphaugh" title="Battle of Philiphaugh">Battle of Philiphaugh</a> in 1645. Partly for defence and partly to overawe the <a href="/wiki/Filibuster_(military)" title="Filibuster (military)">freebooters</a> and <a href="/wiki/Moss-trooper" title="Moss-trooper">moss-troopers</a> who were a perpetual threat until they were suppressed later in the 17th century, castles were erected at various points on both sides of the border.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911246_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911246-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From early on, the two sovereigns agreed on the duty to regulate the borders. The <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Marches" title="Scottish Marches">Scottish Marches</a> system was set up, under the control of three wardens from each side, who generally kept the peace through several centuries until being replaced by the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Scottish_border#Middle_Shires" title="Anglo-Scottish border">Middle Shires</a> under <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">James VI/I</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911246_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911246-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_history">Administrative history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Administrative history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prior to 1975 the area that is now Scottish Borders was administered as the four separate <a href="/wiki/Shires_of_Scotland" title="Shires of Scotland">counties</a> of <a href="/wiki/Berwickshire" title="Berwickshire">Berwickshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peeblesshire" title="Peeblesshire">Peeblesshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roxburghshire" title="Roxburghshire">Roxburghshire</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Selkirkshire" title="Selkirkshire">Selkirkshire</a>, plus part of <a href="/wiki/Midlothian_(historic)" title="Midlothian (historic)">Midlothian</a>. An elected county council was established for each county in 1890 under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Scotland)_Act_1889" title="Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889">Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889</a>. The county councils were abolished in 1975 under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Scotland)_Act_1973" title="Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973">Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973</a>, which established a two-tier structure of <a href="/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_Scotland_1973_to_1996" class="mw-redirect" title="Local government areas of Scotland 1973 to 1996">local government</a> comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. A region called Borders was created covering the area. The region contained four districts, called Berwickshire, <a href="/wiki/Ettrick_and_Lauderdale" title="Ettrick and Lauderdale">Ettrick and Lauderdale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roxburgh_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roxburgh (district)">Roxburgh</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tweeddale" title="Tweeddale">Tweeddale</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Further local government reform in 1996 under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_etc._(Scotland)_Act_1994" title="Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994">Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994</a> saw the area's four districts and the regional council abolished, with a new <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authority</a> created covering the same area as the former Borders Region.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1994 Act called the new council area "The Borders", but the shadow council elected in 1995 to oversee the transition changed the name to "Scottish Borders" prior to the changes coming into effect in 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Topo_map_Scottish_Borders,_Edinburgh,_East_Lothian,_Midlothian.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Topo_map_Scottish_Borders%2C_Edinburgh%2C_East_Lothian%2C_Midlothian.png/220px-Topo_map_Scottish_Borders%2C_Edinburgh%2C_East_Lothian%2C_Midlothian.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Topo_map_Scottish_Borders%2C_Edinburgh%2C_East_Lothian%2C_Midlothian.png/330px-Topo_map_Scottish_Borders%2C_Edinburgh%2C_East_Lothian%2C_Midlothian.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Topo_map_Scottish_Borders%2C_Edinburgh%2C_East_Lothian%2C_Midlothian.png/440px-Topo_map_Scottish_Borders%2C_Edinburgh%2C_East_Lothian%2C_Midlothian.png 2x" data-file-width="1160" data-file-height="1311" /></a><figcaption>Topographic map of Scottish Borders and Lothian</figcaption></figure> <p>The Scottish Borders are in the eastern part of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Uplands" title="Southern Uplands">Southern Uplands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The region is hilly and largely rural, with the <a href="/wiki/River_Tweed" title="River Tweed">River Tweed</a> flowing west to east through it. The highest hill in the region is <a href="/wiki/Broad_Law" title="Broad Law">Broad Law</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Uplands#Hill_ranges" title="Southern Uplands">Manor Hills</a>. In the east of the region, the area that borders the River Tweed is flat and is known as 'The Merse'.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Tweed and its tributaries drain the entire region with the river flowing into the <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a> at <a href="/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed" title="Berwick-upon-Tweed">Berwick-upon-Tweed</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northumberland" title="Northumberland">Northumberland</a>, and forming <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Scottish_border" title="Anglo-Scottish border">the border with England</a> for the last twenty miles or so of its length. </p><p>The term <i>Central Borders</i> refers to the area in which the majority of the main towns and villages of <a href="/wiki/Galashiels" title="Galashiels">Galashiels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Selkirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="Selkirk, Scottish Borders">Selkirk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hawick" title="Hawick">Hawick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jedburgh" title="Jedburgh">Jedburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earlston" title="Earlston">Earlston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kelso,_Scottish_Borders" title="Kelso, Scottish Borders">Kelso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newtown_St_Boswells" title="Newtown St Boswells">Newtown St Boswells</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Boswells" title="St Boswells">St Boswells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peebles" title="Peebles">Peebles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Scottish_Borders" title="Melrose, Scottish Borders">Melrose</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tweedbank" title="Tweedbank">Tweedbank</a> are located. </p><p>Two of Scotland's 40 <a href="/wiki/National_scenic_area_(Scotland)" title="National scenic area (Scotland)">national scenic areas</a> (defined so as to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure their protection from inappropriate development)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> lie within the region:<sup id="cite_ref-nsa-area_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nsa-area-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Eildon_and_Leaderfoot_National_Scenic_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Eildon and Leaderfoot National Scenic Area">Eildon and Leaderfoot National Scenic Area</a> covers the scenery surrounding <a href="/wiki/Eildon_Hill" title="Eildon Hill">Eildon Hill</a>, usually called the Eildons because of the three 'peaks', and extends to include the town of <a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Scottish_Borders" title="Melrose, Scottish Borders">Melrose</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leaderfoot_Viaduct" title="Leaderfoot Viaduct">Leaderfoot Viaduct</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Upper_Tweeddale_National_Scenic_Area" title="Upper Tweeddale National Scenic Area">Upper Tweeddale National Scenic Area</a> covers the scenery surrounding the upper part of the <a href="/wiki/River_Tweed" title="River Tweed">River Tweed</a> between <a href="/wiki/Broughton,_Scottish_Borders" title="Broughton, Scottish Borders">Broughton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peebles" title="Peebles">Peebles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population">Population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the census held on 27 March 2011, the population of the region was 113,870 (final total), an increase of 6.66% from the 106,764 enumerated at the previous (2001) census. The Census of 20 March 2022 produced a population of 116,821. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Language_and_literature">Language and literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Language and literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although there is evidence of some <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic">Scottish Gaelic</a> in the origins of place names such as <a href="/wiki/Innerleithen" title="Innerleithen">Innerleithen</a> ("confluence of the <a href="/wiki/Leithen_Water" title="Leithen Water">Leithen</a>"), <a href="/wiki/Kilbucho" title="Kilbucho">Kilbucho</a> and <a href="/wiki/Longformacus" title="Longformacus">Longformacus</a>, which contain identifiably <a href="/wiki/Goidelic" class="mw-redirect" title="Goidelic">Goidelic</a> rather than <a href="/wiki/Britons_(historical)" class="mw-redirect" title="Britons (historical)">Brythonic</a> <a href="/wiki/Celtic_languages" title="Celtic languages">Celtic</a> elements and are an indication of at least a Gaelic-speaking elite in the area, the main languages in the area since the 5th century appear to have been <a href="/wiki/Cumbric" title="Cumbric">Brythonic</a> (in the west) and <a href="/wiki/Old_English_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Old English language">Old English</a> (in the east), the latter of which developed into its modern forms of <a href="/wiki/Scottish_English" title="Scottish English">English</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Border_ballad" title="Border ballad">Border ballads</a> occupied a distinctive place in literature. Many of them were rescued from oblivion by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Scott" title="Walter Scott">Walter Scott</a>, who gathered materials for his <i>Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border</i>, which appeared in 1802 and 1803. Border traditions and folklore, and the picturesque incidents of which the country was so often the scene, appealed strongly to <a href="/wiki/James_Hogg" title="James Hogg">James Hogg</a> ("the Ettrick Shepherd"), <a href="/wiki/John_Wilson_(Scottish_writer)" title="John Wilson (Scottish writer)">John Wilson</a>, writing as "Christopher North", and <a href="/wiki/John_Mackay_Wilson" title="John Mackay Wilson">John Mackay Wilson</a>, whose <i>Tales of the Borders</i>, published in 1835, enjoyed popular favour throughout the 1800s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911246_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911246-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Borders_Railway_driver_training_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4545489.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Borders_Railway_driver_training_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4545489.jpg/220px-Borders_Railway_driver_training_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4545489.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Borders_Railway_driver_training_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4545489.jpg/330px-Borders_Railway_driver_training_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4545489.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Borders_Railway_driver_training_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4545489.jpg/440px-Borders_Railway_driver_training_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4545489.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/ScotRail" title="ScotRail">ScotRail</a> train on the <a href="/wiki/Borders_Railway" title="Borders Railway">Borders Railway</a> line</figcaption></figure> <p>Until September 2015, the region had no working railway stations. Although the area was well connected to the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a> <a href="/wiki/British_railway_system" class="mw-redirect" title="British railway system">railway system</a>, the branch lines that supplied it were closed in the decades following the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. A bill was passed by the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Parliament" title="Scottish Parliament">Scottish Parliament</a> to extend the <a href="/wiki/Waverley_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Waverley Line">Waverley Line</a>, which aimed to re-introduce a commuter service from <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a> to <a href="/wiki/Stow_of_Wedale" title="Stow of Wedale">Stow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Galashiels" title="Galashiels">Galashiels</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tweedbank" title="Tweedbank">Tweedbank</a>. This section of the route re-opened on 6 September 2015, under the <a href="/wiki/Borders_Railway" title="Borders Railway">Borders Railway</a> branding. The other railway route running through the region is the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line" title="East Coast Main Line">East Coast Main Line</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Waverley_railway_station" title="Edinburgh Waverley railway station">Edinburgh Waverley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dunbar_railway_station" title="Dunbar railway station">Dunbar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed_railway_station" title="Berwick-upon-Tweed railway station">Berwick</a> being the nearest stations on that line, all of which are outwith the Borders. Since 2022, after much discussion a railway station was re-opened at <a href="/wiki/Reston,_Scottish_Borders" title="Reston, Scottish Borders">Reston</a> which is within the region and serves <a href="/wiki/Eyemouth" title="Eyemouth">Eyemouth</a>. To the west, <a href="/wiki/Carlisle_railway_station" title="Carlisle railway station">Carlisle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carstairs_railway_station" title="Carstairs railway station">Carstairs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lockerbie_railway_station" title="Lockerbie railway station">Lockerbie</a> are the nearest stations on the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Main_Line" title="West Coast Main Line">West Coast Main Line</a>. </p><p>The area is served by buses which connect the main population centres. Express bus services link the main towns with rail stations at Edinburgh and Carlisle. </p><p>The region also has no commercial airports; the nearest are <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_Airport" title="Edinburgh Airport">Edinburgh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_International_Airport" title="Newcastle International Airport">Newcastle</a>, both of which are international airports. </p><p>The main roads to and from the region are: </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/A1_road_(Great_Britain)" title="A1 road (Great Britain)">A1</a>, which runs along the east coast from <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> to <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>; passing near <a href="/wiki/Eyemouth" title="Eyemouth">Eyemouth</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/A7_road_(Great_Britain)" title="A7 road (Great Britain)">A7</a> which runs north to south from <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a> to <a href="/wiki/Carlisle,_Cumbria" class="mw-redirect" title="Carlisle, Cumbria">Carlisle</a> and the <a href="/wiki/M6_motorway" title="M6 motorway">M6</a>; passing through <a href="/wiki/Galashiels" title="Galashiels">Galashiels</a>, <a href="/wiki/Selkirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="Selkirk, Scottish Borders">Selkirk</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hawick" title="Hawick">Hawick</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/A68_road" title="A68 road">A68</a> running from <a href="/wiki/Darlington" title="Darlington">Darlington</a> to <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>; passing through <a href="/wiki/Jedburgh" title="Jedburgh">Jedburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Boswells" title="St Boswells">St Boswells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earlston" title="Earlston">Earlston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lauder" title="Lauder">Lauder</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/A72_road_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="A72 road (Great Britain)">A72</a>, which runs east to west from Galashiels to <a href="/wiki/Hamilton,_South_Lanarkshire" title="Hamilton, South Lanarkshire">Hamilton</a>; passing through <a href="/wiki/Innerleithen" title="Innerleithen">Innerleithen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peebles" title="Peebles">Peebles</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In terms of television, the area is covered by <a href="/wiki/BBC_Scotland" title="BBC Scotland">BBC Scotland</a> broadcasting from <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_Border" title="ITV Border">ITV Border</a> which broadcast from <a href="/wiki/Gateshead" title="Gateshead">Gateshead</a>. Television signals are received from the <a href="/wiki/Selkirk_transmitting_station" title="Selkirk transmitting station">Selkirk</a> TV transmitter.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Radio stations are provided by <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Scotland" title="BBC Radio Scotland">BBC Radio Scotland</a> which broadcast the local opt-out from its studios in <a href="/wiki/Selkirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="Selkirk, Scottish Borders">Selkirk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Contact_numbers_for_BBC_Scotland_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Contact_numbers_for_BBC_Scotland-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The commercial radio station, <a href="/wiki/Radio_Borders" title="Radio Borders">Radio Borders</a> broadcasts from <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a> but still broadcast local news bulletins to the area as well as to <a href="/wiki/Berwick-upon_Tweed" class="mw-redirect" title="Berwick-upon Tweed">Berwick-upon Tweed</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northumberland" title="Northumberland">Northumberland</a>. </p><p>The area is served by the main local newspapers: <i><a href="/wiki/Southern_Reporter_(newspaper)" title="Southern Reporter (newspaper)">Southern Reporter</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>The Border Telegraph</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 125%; background-color: #ededed"><div style="display:inline" class="fn org">Scottish Borders Council</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Scottish_Borders_Council_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Coat of arms or logo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/Scottish_Borders_Council_logo.svg/170px-Scottish_Borders_Council_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/Scottish_Borders_Council_logo.svg/255px-Scottish_Borders_Council_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/Scottish_Borders_Council_logo.svg/340px-Scottish_Borders_Council_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="437" data-file-height="183" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Leadership</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Convener" class="mw-redirect" title="Convener">Convener</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em">Watson McAteer, <br /><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> <br />since 19 May 2022 </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Scotland#Leader_of_the_Council" title="Local government in Scotland">Leader</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em">Euan Jardine, <br /><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">Conservative</a> <br />since 19 May 2022<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Chief_Executive" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Executive">Chief Executive</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em">David Robertson <br />since January 2023<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Structure</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">34 councillors</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:United_Kingdom_Scottish_Borders_Council_2024.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/United_Kingdom_Scottish_Borders_Council_2024.svg/250px-United_Kingdom_Scottish_Borders_Council_2024.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/United_Kingdom_Scottish_Borders_Council_2024.svg/375px-United_Kingdom_Scottish_Borders_Council_2024.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/United_Kingdom_Scottish_Borders_Council_2024.svg/500px-United_Kingdom_Scottish_Borders_Council_2024.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Political groups</div></th><td class="infobox-data"> <dl><dt>Administration (18)</dt> <dd><span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#0087DC; color:black;border:1px solid darkgray;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">Conservative</a> (15)</span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959" /><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:black;border:1px solid darkgray;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> (3)</span></dd> <dt>Other parties (16)</dt> <dd><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959" /><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FDF38E; color:black;border:1px solid darkgray;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">SNP</a> (8)</span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959" /><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:black;border:1px solid darkgray;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> (4)</span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959" /><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FAA61A; color:black;border:1px solid darkgray;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrat</a> (3)</span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959" /><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#00B140; color:black;border:1px solid darkgray;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Green_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Green Party">Green</a> (1)</span></dd></dl> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Elections</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_system" title="Electoral system">Voting system</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Single_transferable_vote" title="Single transferable vote">Single transferable vote</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Last election</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/2022_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2022 Scottish Borders Council election">5 May 2022</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Next election</div></th><td class="infobox-data">6 May 2027</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Meeting place</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Scottish_Borders_Council_Headquarters_at_Newtown_St_Boswells_(geograph_4367455).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Scottish_Borders_Council_Headquarters_at_Newtown_St_Boswells_%28geograph_4367455%29.jpg/250px-Scottish_Borders_Council_Headquarters_at_Newtown_St_Boswells_%28geograph_4367455%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Scottish_Borders_Council_Headquarters_at_Newtown_St_Boswells_%28geograph_4367455%29.jpg/330px-Scottish_Borders_Council_Headquarters_at_Newtown_St_Boswells_%28geograph_4367455%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Scottish_Borders_Council_Headquarters_at_Newtown_St_Boswells_%28geograph_4367455%29.jpg/500px-Scottish_Borders_Council_Headquarters_at_Newtown_St_Boswells_%28geograph_4367455%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="428" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data label"><a href="/wiki/Council_Headquarters,_Newtown_St_Boswells" title="Council Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells">Council Headquarters</a>, Bowden Road, <a href="/wiki/Newtown_St_Boswells" title="Newtown St Boswells">Newtown St Boswells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Scottish_Borders" title="Melrose, Scottish Borders">Melrose</a>, TD6<span class="nowrap"> </span>0SA</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scotborders.gov.uk">www<wbr />.scotborders<wbr />.gov<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_control">Political control</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Political control"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The council has been under <a href="/wiki/No_overall_control" title="No overall control">no overall control</a> since 1999. Since the <a href="/wiki/2022_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2022 Scottish Borders Council election">2022 election</a> the council has been run by an administration of the Conservatives and three of the independent councillors.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first election to the Borders Regional Council was held in 1974, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new system came into force on 16 May 1975. A shadow authority was again elected in 1995 ahead of the reforms which came into force on 1 April 1996. Political control of the council since 1975 has been as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-compositions_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-compositions-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Borders Regional Council</b> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Party in control</th> <th>Years </th></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td>1975–1978 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/No_overall_control" title="No overall control">No overall control</a></td> <td>1978–1982 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td>1982–1994 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/No_overall_control" title="No overall control">No overall control</a></td> <td>1994–1996 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Scottish Borders Council</b> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Party in control</th> <th>Years </th></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td>1996–1999 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: black;" data-sort-value="No overall control"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/No_overall_control" title="No overall control">No overall control</a></td> <td>1999–present </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Leadership">Leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_council" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of the council">leader of the council</a> following the 1996 reforms was Drew Tulley, who had been the last leader of the former Ettrick and Lauderdale District Council.<sup id="cite_ref-Tulley_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tulley-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The leaders since 1996 have been:<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Councillor</th> <th colspan="2">Party</th> <th>From</th> <th>To </th></tr> <tr> <td>Drew Tulley<sup id="cite_ref-Tulley_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tulley-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td align="right">1996</td> <td align="right">6 Mar 2002 </td></tr> <tr> <td>John Ross Scott</td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FAA61A;" data-sort-value="Scottish Liberal Democrats"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats">Liberal Democrats</a></td> <td align="right">6 Mar 2002</td> <td align="right">3 May 2003 </td></tr> <tr> <td>David Parker</td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent politician"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td align="right">12 Mar 2003</td> <td align="right">18 May 2017 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Shona Haslam</td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservatives"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">Conservative</a></td> <td align="right">18 May 2017</td> <td align="right">25 Nov 2021 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Mark Rowley</td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservatives"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">Conservative</a></td> <td align="right">25 Nov 2021</td> <td align="right">19 May 2022 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Euan Jardine</td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Scottish Conservatives"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">Conservative</a></td> <td align="right">19 May 2022</td> <td align="right"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Premises">Premises</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Premises"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scottish Borders Council is based at the <a href="/wiki/Council_Headquarters,_Newtown_St_Boswells" title="Council Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells">Council Headquarters</a> in Newtown St Boswells. The building had been the headquarters of Roxburghshire County Council prior to 1975,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and subsequently served as the served as the main office of the Borders Regional Council between 1975 and 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections">Elections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Wards_of_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Category:Wards of the Scottish Borders">Category:Wards of the Scottish Borders</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:Scottish_Borders_Council_elections" title="Category:Scottish Borders Council elections">Category:Scottish Borders Council elections</a></div> <p>Since 2007 elections have been held every five years under the <a href="/wiki/Single_transferable_vote" title="Single transferable vote">single transferable vote</a> system, introduced by the <a href="/wiki/Local_Governance_(Scotland)_Act_2004" title="Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004">Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004</a>. Election results since 1995 have been as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-compositions_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-compositions-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2"><b>Year</b> </th> <th rowspan="2"><b>Seats</b> </th> <th width="80"><b><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Conservatives" title="Scottish Conservatives">Conservative</a></b> </th> <th width="80"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party"><b>SNP</b></a> </th> <th width="80"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Liberal_Democrats" title="Scottish Liberal Democrats"><b>Liberal Democrats</b></a> </th> <th width="80"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Greens" title="Scottish Greens"><b>Green</b></a> </th> <th width="80"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Labour" title="Scottish Labour"><b>Labour</b></a> </th> <th width="80"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician"><b>Independent / Other</b></a> </th> <th rowspan="2"><b>Notes</b> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 3px;"> </th> <th style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 3px;"> </th> <th style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 3px;"> </th> <th style="background-color: #00B140; width: 3px;"> </th> <th style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 3px;"> </th> <th style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 3px;"> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1995_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="1995 Scottish Borders Council election">1995</a> </td> <td>58 </td> <td>3 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>15 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>30 </td> <td align="left"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1999_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="1999 Scottish Borders Council election">1999</a> </td> <td>34 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>4 </td> <td>14 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>14 </td> <td align="left">New ward boundaries<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2003_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2003 Scottish Borders Council election">2003</a> </td> <td>34 </td> <td>11 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>8 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>14 </td> <td align="left"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2007_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2007 Scottish Borders Council election">2007</a> </td> <td>34 </td> <td>11 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>10 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>7 </td> <td align="left">New ward boundaries<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2012_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2012 Scottish Borders Council election">2012</a> </td> <td>34 </td> <td>10 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>6 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>9 </td> <td align="left">SNP / Lib Dem / Independent coalition </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2017_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2017 Scottish Borders Council election">2017</a> </td> <td>34 </td> <td>15 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>2 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>8 </td> <td align="left">Conservative / Independent coalition<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2022_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2022 Scottish Borders Council election">2022</a> </td> <td>34 </td> <td>14 </td> <td>9 </td> <td>3 </td> <td>1 </td> <td>0 </td> <td>7 </td> <td align="left">Conservative / Independent coalition<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <th> </th> <th> </th> <th style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 3px;"> </th> <th style="background-color: #FDF38E; width: 3px;"> </th> <th style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 3px;"> </th> <th style="background-color: #00B140; width: 3px;"> </th> <th style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 3px;"> </th> <th style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 3px;"> </th> <th> </th></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Constituencies">Constituencies</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Constituencies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are two British Parliamentary constituencies in the Scottish Borders; <a href="/wiki/Berwickshire,_Roxburgh_and_Selkirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk</a> covers most of the region and is represented by <a href="/wiki/John_Lamont" title="John Lamont">John Lamont</a> of the Conservatives. The western Tweeddale area is included in the <a href="/wiki/Dumfriesshire,_Clydesdale_and_Tweeddale_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (UK Parliament constituency)">Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale constituency</a> and is represented by <a href="/wiki/David_Mundell" title="David Mundell">David Mundell</a> of the Conservatives. </p><p>At Scottish Parliament level, there are also two seats. The eastern constituency is <a href="/wiki/Ettrick,_Roxburgh_and_Berwickshire_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire</a>, which is currently represented by Conservative <a href="/wiki/Rachael_Hamilton" title="Rachael Hamilton">Rachael Hamilton</a>. The western constituency is <a href="/wiki/Midlothian_South,_Tweeddale_and_Lauderdale_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)" title="Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale (Scottish Parliament constituency)">Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale</a> and is represented by SNP <a href="/wiki/Christine_Grahame" title="Christine Grahame">Christine Grahame</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wards">Wards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Wards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scottish_Borders_UK_ward_map_(blank).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Scottish_Borders_UK_ward_map_%28blank%29.svg/220px-Scottish_Borders_UK_ward_map_%28blank%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Scottish_Borders_UK_ward_map_%28blank%29.svg/330px-Scottish_Borders_UK_ward_map_%28blank%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Scottish_Borders_UK_ward_map_%28blank%29.svg/440px-Scottish_Borders_UK_ward_map_%28blank%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="1322" /></a><figcaption>Map of the area's wards</figcaption></figure> <p>The council area is divided into 11 wards that elect 34 councilors: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Ward Number </th> <th>Ward Name </th> <th>Location </th> <th>Population<br />2022 Census </th> <th>Seats </th></tr> <tr> <td>1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tweeddale_West_(ward)" title="Tweeddale West (ward)">Tweeddale West</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tweedale_West.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Tweedale_West.svg/100px-Tweedale_West.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Tweedale_West.svg/150px-Tweedale_West.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Tweedale_West.svg/200px-Tweedale_West.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>10,407 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tweeddale_East_(ward)" title="Tweeddale East (ward)">Tweeddale East</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tweedale_East.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Tweedale_East.svg/100px-Tweedale_East.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Tweedale_East.svg/150px-Tweedale_East.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Tweedale_East.svg/200px-Tweedale_East.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>10,942 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>3 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Galashiels_and_District_(ward)" title="Galashiels and District (ward)">Galashiels and District</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Galashiels_and_District.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Galashiels_and_District.svg/120px-Galashiels_and_District.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Galashiels_and_District.svg/250px-Galashiels_and_District.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>15,336 </td> <td>4 </td></tr> <tr> <td>4 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Selkirkshire_(ward)" title="Selkirkshire (ward)">Selkirkshire</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Selkirkshire.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Selkirkshire.svg/120px-Selkirkshire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Selkirkshire.svg/250px-Selkirkshire.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>9,796 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leaderdale_and_Melrose_(ward)" title="Leaderdale and Melrose (ward)">Leaderdale and Melrose</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Leaderdale_and_Melrose.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Leaderdale_and_Melrose.svg/100px-Leaderdale_and_Melrose.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Leaderdale_and_Melrose.svg/150px-Leaderdale_and_Melrose.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Leaderdale_and_Melrose.svg/200px-Leaderdale_and_Melrose.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>11,391 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>6 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mid_Berwickshire_(ward)" title="Mid Berwickshire (ward)">Mid Berwickshire</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mid_Berwickshire.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Mid_Berwickshire.svg/120px-Mid_Berwickshire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Mid_Berwickshire.svg/250px-Mid_Berwickshire.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>10,645 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>7 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Berwickshire_(ward)" title="East Berwickshire (ward)">East Berwickshire</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:East_Berwickshire.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/East_Berwickshire.svg/120px-East_Berwickshire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/East_Berwickshire.svg/250px-East_Berwickshire.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>11,381 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>8 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kelso_and_District_(ward)" title="Kelso and District (ward)">Kelso and District</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kelso_and_District.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Kelso_and_District.svg/100px-Kelso_and_District.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Kelso_and_District.svg/150px-Kelso_and_District.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Kelso_and_District.svg/200px-Kelso_and_District.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>10,212 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>9 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jedburgh_and_District_(ward)" title="Jedburgh and District (ward)">Jedburgh and District</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jedburgh_and_District.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Jedburgh_and_District.svg/100px-Jedburgh_and_District.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Jedburgh_and_District.svg/150px-Jedburgh_and_District.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Jedburgh_and_District.svg/200px-Jedburgh_and_District.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>9,003 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>10 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hawick_and_Denholm_(ward)" title="Hawick and Denholm (ward)">Hawick and Denholm</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hawick_and_Denholm.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Hawick_and_Denholm.svg/100px-Hawick_and_Denholm.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Hawick_and_Denholm.svg/150px-Hawick_and_Denholm.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Hawick_and_Denholm.svg/200px-Hawick_and_Denholm.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>9,159 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>11 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hawick_and_Hermitage_(ward)" title="Hawick and Hermitage (ward)">Hawick and Hermitage</a> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hawich_and_Hermitage.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Hawich_and_Hermitage.svg/120px-Hawich_and_Hermitage.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Hawich_and_Hermitage.svg/250px-Hawich_and_Hermitage.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1341" data-file-height="1300" /></a></span> </td> <td>8,551 </td> <td>3 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Settlements">Settlements</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Settlements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:#fff!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .locmap{filter:grayscale(0.6)}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .od .pr>div{background:white!important;color:#000!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data .locmap div{background:transparent!important}}</style><div class="locmap noviewer noresize thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:502px"><div style="position:relative;width:500px;border:1px solid lightgray"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Scottish Borders is located in Scottish Borders"><img alt="Scottish Borders is located in Scottish Borders" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg/500px-Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="500" height="464" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg/750px-Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg/1000px-Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1425" data-file-height="1322" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:42.289%;left:48.285%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Galashiels"><img alt="Galashiels" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;bottom:5px;left:-3em"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Galashiels" title="Galashiels">Galashiels</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:64.222%;left:49.273%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Hawick"><img alt="Hawick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Hawick" title="Hawick">Hawick</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:38.678%;left:24.921%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Peebles"><img alt="Peebles" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;bottom:5px;left:-3em"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Peebles" title="Peebles">Peebles</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:44.61%;left:70.693%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Kelso"><img alt="Kelso" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;top:5px;left:-3em"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Kelso,_Scottish_Borders" title="Kelso, Scottish Borders">Kelso</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:50%;left:46.059%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Selkirk"><img alt="Selkirk" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Selkirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="Selkirk, Scottish Borders">Selkirk</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:58.111%;left:63.879%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Jedburgh"><img alt="Jedburgh" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Jedburgh" title="Jedburgh">Jedburgh</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:14.333%;left:91.333%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Eyemouth"><img alt="Eyemouth" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;bottom:5px;left:-3em"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Eyemouth" title="Eyemouth">Eyemouth</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:42.399%;left:32.787%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Innerleithen"><img alt="Innerleithen" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pv" style="width:6em;top:5px;left:-3em"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Innerleithen" title="Innerleithen">Innerleithen</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:24.624%;left:76.206%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Duns"><img alt="Duns" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:5px"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Duns,_Scottish_Borders" title="Duns, Scottish Borders">Duns</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:44.667%;left:52.667%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-4px;top:-4px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Melrose"><img alt="Melrose" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="8" height="8" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/16px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:5px"><div><b><a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Scottish_Borders" title="Melrose, Scottish Borders">Melrose</a></b></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:8.889%;left:43.03%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-0px;top:-0px"></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:1px"><div><i><a href="/wiki/East_Lothian#Settlements" title="East Lothian">East Lothian</a></i></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:43.333%;left:81.818%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-0px;top:-0px"></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:1px"><div><i><a href="/wiki/Northumberland" title="Northumberland">North-umberland</a></i></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:98.333%;left:46.364%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-0px;top:-0px"></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:1px"><div><i><a href="/wiki/Cumbria" title="Cumbria">Cumbria</a></i></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:82.222%;left:15.152%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-0px;top:-0px"></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:1px"><div><i><a href="/wiki/Dumfries_and_Galloway#Settlements" title="Dumfries and Galloway">Dumfries and Galloway</a></i></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:32.778%;left:0%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-0px;top:-0px"></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:1px"><div><i><a href="/wiki/South_Lanarkshire#Settlements" title="South Lanarkshire">South<br />Lan.</a></i></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:16%;left:0.606%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-0px;top:-0px"></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:1px"><div><i><a href="/wiki/West_Lothian#Settlements" title="West Lothian">West<br />Lothian</a></i></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:6.778%;left:13.333%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-0px;top:-0px"></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:1px"><div><i><a href="/wiki/City_of_Edinburgh_(council_area)#Settlements" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Edinburgh (council area)">City of Edinburgh</a></i></div></div></div><div class="od notheme" style="top:18.889%;left:21.212%;font-size:120%"><div class="id" style="left:-0px;top:-0px"></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:1px"><div><i><a href="/wiki/Midlothian#Settlements" title="Midlothian">Midlothian</a></i></div></div></div></div><div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg" title="File:Scottish Borders UK location map.svg">class=notpageimage| </a></div><div style="float:left;">The largest settlements in Scottish Borders</div></div></div></div> <p>Largest settlements by population: </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Settlement </th> <th colspan="2" style="background:#eaecf0ff; text-align: center;">Population </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eaecf0ff;">2011<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th style="background:#eaecf0ff;">2020<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Galashiels" title="Galashiels">Galashiels</a> </td> <td>14,994 </td> <td> <p>15,490<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hawick" title="Hawick">Hawick</a> </td> <td>14,294 </td> <td> <p>13,620<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Peebles" title="Peebles">Peebles</a> </td> <td>8,376 </td> <td> <p>9,000 </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kelso,_Scottish_Borders" title="Kelso, Scottish Borders">Kelso</a> </td> <td>5,639 </td> <td> <p>6,870 </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Selkirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="Selkirk, Scottish Borders">Selkirk</a> </td> <td>5,784 </td> <td> <p>4,540 </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jedburgh" title="Jedburgh">Jedburgh</a> </td> <td>4,030 </td> <td> <p>3,860 </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Eyemouth" title="Eyemouth">Eyemouth</a> </td> <td>3,546 </td> <td> <p>3,580 </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Innerleithen" title="Innerleithen">Innerleithen</a> </td> <td>3,031 </td> <td> <p>3,180 </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Duns,_Scottish_Borders" title="Duns, Scottish Borders">Duns</a> </td> <td>2,753 </td> <td> <p>2,820 </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Scottish_Borders" title="Melrose, Scottish Borders">Melrose</a> </td> <td>2,307 </td> <td> <p>2,500 </p> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Includes Langlee and <a href="/wiki/Tweedbank" title="Tweedbank">Tweedbank</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Includes <a href="/wiki/Burnfoot,_Hawick" title="Burnfoot, Hawick">Burnfoot</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Places_of_interest">Places of interest</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Places of interest"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abbotsford_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbotsford House">Abbotsford House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berwickshire_Coastal_Path" title="Berwickshire Coastal Path">Berwickshire Coastal Path</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowhill_House" title="Bowhill House">Bowhill House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheviot_Hills" title="Cheviot Hills">Cheviot Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cessford_Burn" title="Cessford Burn">Cessford Burn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coldingham_Bay" title="Coldingham Bay">Coldingham Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawyck_Botanic_Garden" title="Dawyck Botanic Garden">Dawyck Botanic Garden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dryburgh_Abbey" title="Dryburgh Abbey">Dryburgh Abbey</a> – <a href="/wiki/Historic_Scotland" title="Historic Scotland">Historic Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duns_Castle" title="Duns Castle">Duns Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edin%27s_Hall_Broch" title="Edin's Hall Broch">Edin's Hall Broch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ettrick_Forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Ettrick Forest">Ettrick Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eyemouth" title="Eyemouth">Eyemouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floors_Castle" title="Floors Castle">Floors Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glentress_Forest" title="Glentress Forest">Glentress Forest</a> – <a href="/wiki/Forest_Enterprise" class="mw-redirect" title="Forest Enterprise">Forest Enterprise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenknowe_Tower" title="Greenknowe Tower">Greenknowe Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmony_Garden,_Scottish_Borders" title="Harmony Garden, Scottish Borders">Harmony Garden</a> – <a href="/wiki/National_Trust_for_Scotland" title="National Trust for Scotland">National Trust for Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawkshaw,_Scottish_Borders" title="Hawkshaw, Scottish Borders">Hawkshaw</a> – ancestral home of the <a href="/wiki/Porteous_family" title="Porteous family">Porteous family</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermitage_Castle" title="Hermitage Castle">Hermitage Castle</a> – <a href="/wiki/Historic_Scotland" title="Historic Scotland">Historic Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jedburgh_Abbey" title="Jedburgh Abbey">Jedburgh Abbey</a> – <a href="/wiki/Historic_Scotland" title="Historic Scotland">Historic Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kailzie_Gardens" title="Kailzie Gardens">Kailzie Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelso_Abbey" title="Kelso Abbey">Kelso Abbey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Kirna" title="The Kirna">Kirna House (The Kirna, previously Grangehill)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lammermuir_Hills" title="Lammermuir Hills">Lammermuir Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauderdale" title="Lauderdale">Lauderdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manderston" title="Manderston">Manderston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Megget_Reservoir" title="Megget Reservoir">Megget Reservoir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mellerstain_House" title="Mellerstain House">Mellerstain House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melrose_Abbey" title="Melrose Abbey">Melrose Abbey</a> – <a href="/wiki/Historic_Scotland" title="Historic Scotland">Historic Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mire_Loch" title="Mire Loch">Mire Loch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monteviot" class="mw-redirect" title="Monteviot">Monteviot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morebattle" title="Morebattle">Morebattle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neidpath_Castle" title="Neidpath Castle">Neidpath Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nisbet_House" title="Nisbet House">Nisbet, Berwickshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nisbet,_Roxburghshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Nisbet, Roxburghshire">Nisbet, Roxburghshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paxton_House,_Berwickshire" title="Paxton House, Berwickshire">Paxton House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennine_Way" title="Pennine Way">Pennine Way</a> – <a href="/wiki/National_Trails" title="National Trails">National Trails</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priorwood_Garden" title="Priorwood Garden">Priorwood Garden</a> – <a href="/wiki/National_Trust_for_Scotland" title="National Trust for Scotland">National Trust for Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Smail%27s_Printing_Works" title="Robert Smail's Printing Works">Robert Smail's Printing Works</a> – <a href="/wiki/National_Trust_for_Scotland" title="National Trust for Scotland">National Trust for Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scots%27_dike" class="mw-redirect" title="Scots' dike">Scots' dike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smailholm_Tower" title="Smailholm Tower">Smailholm Tower</a> – <a href="/wiki/Historic_Scotland" title="Historic Scotland">Historic Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Upland_Way" title="Southern Upland Way">Southern Upland Way</a> – <a href="/wiki/National_Trails" title="National Trails">National Trails</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Abb%27s_Head" title="St Abb's Head">St. Abbs Head</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Loch" title="St Mary's Loch">St. Mary's Loch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Ronans_Wells" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Ronans Wells">St. Ronans Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teviotdale" class="mw-redirect" title="Teviotdale">Teviotdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirlestane_Castle" title="Thirlestane Castle">Thirlestane Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traquair_House" title="Traquair House">Traquair House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trimontium_(Newstead)" title="Trimontium (Newstead)">Trimontium</a> and the Eildons</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Bridge_(Tweed)" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Bridge (Tweed)">Union Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Monument" title="Waterloo Monument">Waterloo Monument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wedderburn_Castle" title="Wedderburn Castle">Wedderburn Castle</a></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borders_College" title="Borders College">Borders College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Marches" title="Scottish Marches">Scottish Marches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Scottish_border" title="Anglo-Scottish border">Anglo-Scottish border</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Debatable_lands" class="mw-redirect" title="Debatable lands">Debatable lands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="List of places in the Scottish Borders">List of places in the Scottish Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Lowlands" title="Scottish Lowlands">Scottish Lowlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Jeffrey" title="Alexander Jeffrey">Alexander Jeffrey</a>, historian of Scottish Borders</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes_and_references">Notes and references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Notes and references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Council_leadership-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Council_leadership_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/council-2">"Your Council"</a>. <i>Scottish Borders Council</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 September</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Scottish+Borders+Council&rft.atitle=Your+Council&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scotborders.gov.uk%2Fcouncil-2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-popstats-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-popstats_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-popstats_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/datasets/populationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland/mid2022/mye22final.xlsx">"Mid-Year Population Estimates, UK, June 2022"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Office_for_National_Statistics" title="Office for National Statistics">Office for National Statistics</a></i>. 26 March 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 May</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Office+for+National+Statistics&rft.atitle=Mid-Year+Population+Estimates%2C+UK%2C+June+2022&rft.date=2024-03-26&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Ffile%3Furi%3D%2Fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2Fpopulationandmigration%2Fpopulationestimates%2Fdatasets%2Fpopulationestimatesforukenglandandwalesscotlandandnorthernireland%2Fmid2022%2Fmye22final.xlsx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20080205132100/direct.gov.uk/en/dl1/directories/devolvedadministrations/dg_4003604">"Local councils in Scotland"</a>. <i>Directgov</i>. Internet Memory Foundation. Archived from the original on 5 February 2008 – via UK Government Web Archive – The National Archives.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Directgov&rft.atitle=Local+councils+in+Scotland&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdirect.gov.uk%2Fen%2Fdl1%2Fdirectories%2Fdevolvedadministrations%2Fdg_4003604&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_bot:_original_URL_status_unknown" title="Category:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911245-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911245_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChisholm1911">Chisholm 1911</a>, p. 245.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911246-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911246_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911246_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911246_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChisholm1911">Chisholm 1911</a>, p. 246.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/65/">"Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Legislation.gov.uk" title="Legislation.gov.uk">legislation.gov.uk</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a>, 1973 c. 65<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 November</span> 2022</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=legislation.gov.uk&rft.atitle=Local+Government+%28Scotland%29+Act+1973&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flegislation.gov.uk%2Fukpga%2F1973%2F65%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/39/">"Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Legislation.gov.uk" title="Legislation.gov.uk">legislation.gov.uk</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a>, 1978 c. 39<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">22 November</span> 2022</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=legislation.gov.uk&rft.atitle=Local+Government+etc.+%28Scotland%29+Act+1994&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flegislation.gov.uk%2Fukpga%2F1978%2F39%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGazette23789" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/23789/page/1333">"No. 23789"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Edinburgh_Gazette" title="The Edinburgh Gazette">The Edinburgh Gazette</a></i>. 26 May 1995. p. 1333.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Edinburgh+Gazette&rft.atitle=No.+23789&rft.pages=1333&rft.date=1995-05-26&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegazette.co.uk%2FEdinburgh%2Fissue%2F23789%2Fpage%2F1333&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161108171800/http://www.visitsouthernscotland.co.uk/">"Accommodation – Dumfries and Galloway – Ayrshire and Arran – Scottish Borders – Southern South West Scotland – Hotels – Bed and Breakfasts – Self Catering Holiday Cottages"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.visitsouthernscotland.co.uk/">the original</a> on 8 November 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 December</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Accommodation+%E2%80%93+Dumfries+and+Galloway+%E2%80%93+Ayrshire+and+Arran+%E2%80%93+Scottish+Borders+%E2%80%93+Southern+South+West+Scotland+%E2%80%93+Hotels+%E2%80%93+Bed+and+Breakfasts+%E2%80%93+Self+Catering+Holiday+Cottages&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.visitsouthernscotland.co.uk%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">p. 47 of<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBanks,_F._R._(Francis_Richard)1951" class="citation cs2">Banks, F. R. (Francis Richard) (1951), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10125169"><i>Scottish Border Country</i></a>, Batsford<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 October</span> 2016</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Scottish+Border+Country&rft.pub=Batsford&rft.date=1951&rft.au=Banks%2C+F.+R.+%28Francis+Richard%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ftrove.nla.gov.au%2Fwork%2F10125169&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/safeguarding-protected-areas-and-species/protected-areas/national-designations/national-scenic-areas/">"National Scenic Areas"</a>. Scottish Natural Heritage<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">5 July</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=National+Scenic+Areas&rft.pub=Scottish+Natural+Heritage&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.scot%2Fprofessional-advice%2Fsafeguarding-protected-areas-and-species%2Fprotected-areas%2Fnational-designations%2Fnational-scenic-areas%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nsa-area-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nsa-area_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140337/http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Environment/Countryside/Heritage/Areas/maps">"National Scenic Areas – Maps"</a>. SNH. 20 December 2010. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gov.scot/Topics/Environment/Countryside/Heritage/Areas/maps">the original</a> on 12 June 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 March</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=National+Scenic+Areas+%E2%80%93+Maps&rft.pub=SNH&rft.date=2010-12-20&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.scot%2FTopics%2FEnvironment%2FCountryside%2FHeritage%2FAreas%2Fmaps&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180118202051/http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/921/0109900.pdf">"Eildon and Leaderfoot National Scenic Area Map"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Scottish Natural Heritage. 20 December 2010. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/921/0109900.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 18 January 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 March</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Eildon+and+Leaderfoot+National+Scenic+Area+Map&rft.pub=Scottish+Natural+Heritage&rft.date=2010-12-20&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.scot%2FResource%2FDoc%2F921%2F0109900.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160803215153/http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/921/0109901.pdf">"Upper Tweeddale NSA Map"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Natural_Heritage" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Natural Heritage">Scottish Natural Heritage</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/921/0109901.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 3 August 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 July</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Upper+Tweeddale+NSA+Map&rft.pub=Scottish+Natural+Heritage&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.scot%2FResource%2FDoc%2F921%2F0109901.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Selkirk">"Selkirk (The Scottish Borders, Scotland) Full Freeview transmitter"</a>. 1 May 2004<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 February</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Selkirk+%28The+Scottish+Borders%2C+Scotland%29+Full+Freeview+transmitter&rft.date=2004-05-01&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fukfree.tv%2Ftransmitters%2Ftv%2FSelkirk&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Contact_numbers_for_BBC_Scotland-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Contact_numbers_for_BBC_Scotland_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFContact_numbers_for_BBC_Scotland" class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/aboutus/ciac/information/contact.shtml">"Contact numbers for BBC Scotland"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210528131909/https://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/4ce2251c28db82aa892a105b718dba4d6a74c327.gif">Archived</a> from the original on 28 May 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 March</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Contact+numbers+for+BBC+Scotland&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fscotland%2Faboutus%2Fciac%2Finformation%2Fcontact.shtml&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/scotland/southern-reporter/">"Southern Reporter"</a>. <i>British Papers</i>. 21 January 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 February</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=British+Papers&rft.atitle=Southern+Reporter&rft.date=2014-01-21&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishpapers.co.uk%2Fscotland%2Fsouthern-reporter%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/scotland/border-telegraph/">"Border Telegraph"</a>. <i>British Papers</i>. 23 November 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 February</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=British+Papers&rft.atitle=Border+Telegraph&rft.date=2013-11-23&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britishpapers.co.uk%2Fscotland%2Fborder-telegraph%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scottishborders.moderngov.co.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=132&MId=5739&Ver=4">"Council minutes, 19 May 2022"</a>. <i>Scottish Borders Council</i>. 19 May 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 July</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Scottish+Borders+Council&rft.atitle=Council+minutes%2C+19+May+2022&rft.date=2022-05-19&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fscottishborders.moderngov.co.uk%2FieListDocuments.aspx%3FCId%3D132%26MId%3D5739%26Ver%3D4&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxrn1dd6e4no">"New chief executive appointed at Scottish Borders Council"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 20 January 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 July</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=New+chief+executive+appointed+at+Scottish+Borders+Council&rft.date=2023-01-20&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Fcxrn1dd6e4no&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFKelly2022" class="citation news cs1">Kelly, Paul (19 May 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/20151672.new-leader-convener-scottish-borders-council-appointed/">"New leader and convener of Scottish Borders Council appointed"</a>. <i>Border Telegraph</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 July</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Border+Telegraph&rft.atitle=New+leader+and+convener+of+Scottish+Borders+Council+appointed&rft.date=2022-05-19&rft.aulast=Kelly&rft.aufirst=Paul&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bordertelegraph.com%2Fnews%2F20151672.new-leader-convener-scottish-borders-council-appointed%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-compositions-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-compositions_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-compositions_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.electionscentre.co.uk/?page_id=3825">"Compositions calculator"</a>. <i>The Elections Centre</i>. 4 March 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">6 November</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Elections+Centre&rft.atitle=Compositions+calculator&rft.date=2016-03-04&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.electionscentre.co.uk%2F%3Fpage_id%3D3825&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Tulley-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Tulley_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tulley_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJaniak2020" class="citation news cs1">Janiak, Kevin (30 November 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/politics/council/drew-gave-total-commitment-3052718">"Drew gave 'total commitment'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>Southern Reporter</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 December</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Southern+Reporter&rft.atitle=Drew+gave+%27total+commitment%27&rft.date=2020-11-30&rft.aulast=Janiak&rft.aufirst=Kevin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesouthernreporter.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fcouncil%2Fdrew-gave-total-commitment-3052718&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scottishborders.moderngov.co.uk/mgCalendarMonthView.aspx?GL=1&bcr=1">"Council minutes"</a>. <i>Scottish Borders Council</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 December</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Scottish+Borders+Council&rft.atitle=Council+minutes&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fscottishborders.moderngov.co.uk%2FmgCalendarMonthView.aspx%3FGL%3D1%26bcr%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://canmore.org.uk/site/350461/newtown-st-boswells-roxburgh-county-offices">"Roxburgh County Offices, Newtown St Boswells"</a>. <i>Canmore</i>. Historic Environment Scotland<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 December</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Canmore&rft.atitle=Roxburgh+County+Offices%2C+Newtown+St+Boswells&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcanmore.org.uk%2Fsite%2F350461%2Fnewtown-st-boswells-roxburgh-county-offices&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scottish Borders Council, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/location">Location</a>, accessed 30 May 2023</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3103/made">"The Scottish Borders (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Legislation.gov.uk" title="Legislation.gov.uk">legislation.gov.uk</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/The_National_Archives_(United_Kingdom)" title="The National Archives (United Kingdom)">The National Archives</a>, SI 1998/3103<span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 December</span> 2022</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=legislation.gov.uk&rft.atitle=The+Scottish+Borders+%28Electoral+Arrangements%29+Order+1998&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flegislation.gov.uk%2Fuksi%2F1998%2F3103%2Fmade&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scottish Parliament. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/533">The Scottish Borders (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2006</a></i> as made, from <a href="/wiki/Legislation.gov.uk" title="Legislation.gov.uk">legislation.gov.uk</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-39856649">"Conservatives and independents to run Scottish Borders Council"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 9 May 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 December</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Conservatives+and+independents+to+run+Scottish+Borders+Council&rft.date=2017-05-09&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-scotland-south-scotland-39856649&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-61348883">"Scottish election results 2022: First Green for Scottish Borders Council"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 6 May 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 May</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=Scottish+election+results+2022%3A+First+Green+for+Scottish+Borders+Council&rft.date=2022-05-06&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fuk-scotland-south-scotland-61348883&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190112150245/http://www.ourscottishborders.com/live/towns/populations">"Population of Scottish Borders towns (last count 2011)"</a>. <i>ourscottishborders.com</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourscottishborders.com/live/towns/populations">the original</a> on 12 January 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=ourscottishborders.com&rft.atitle=Population+of+Scottish+Borders+towns+%28last+count+2011%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourscottishborders.com%2Flive%2Ftowns%2Fpopulations&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/publications/population-estimates-for-settlements-and-localities-in-scotland-mid-2020/">"Population estimates for settlements and localities in Scotland: mid-2020"</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Records_of_Scotland" title="National Records of Scotland">National Records of Scotland</a>. 31 March 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">31 March</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Population+estimates+for+settlements+and+localities+in+Scotland%3A+mid-2020&rft.pub=National+Records+of+Scotland&rft.date=2022-03-31&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrscotland.gov.uk%2Fpublications%2Fpopulation-estimates-for-settlements-and-localities-in-scotland-mid-2020%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <ul><li><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/20px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/40px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> </span>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Borders,_The" class="extiw" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Borders, The">Borders, The</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">245–</span>246.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Borders%2C+The&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E245-%3C%2Fspan%3E246&rft.edition=11th&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=1911&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AScottish+Borders" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/40px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/60px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Scottish_Borders" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Scottish Borders"><br />Scottish Borders</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/sscots.htm">Borders' Dialect</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190104052536/http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/sscots.htm">Archived</a> 4 January 2019 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scotslanguage.com/Scots_Dialects/Southern/Southern_Scots_uid792">Scots Language Centre page on Borders' Dialect</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.borders.co.uk">Region Website</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-title,.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow{padding:0.25em 1em;line-height:1.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .navbox-group{white-space:nowrap;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup{background-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list{line-height:1.5em;border-color:#fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-list-with-group{text-align:left;border-left-width:2px;border-left-style:solid}.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-group,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-image,.mw-parser-output tr+tr>.navbox-list{border-top:2px solid #fdfdfd}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title{background-color:#ccf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-title{background-color:#ddf}.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-group,.mw-parser-output .navbox-subgroup .navbox-abovebelow{background-color:#e6e6ff}.mw-parser-output .navbox-even{background-color:#f7f7f7}.mw-parser-output .navbox-odd{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox .hlist td ul,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .navbox td.hlist ul{padding:0.125em 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbar{display:block;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .navbox-title .navbar{float:left;text-align:left;margin-right:0.5em}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .navbox-image img{max-width:none!important}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .navbox{display:none!important}}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Scottish_Borders83" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#e8e8ff;"><div id="Scottish_Borders83" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Scottish Borders</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;font-size:114%"><div style="padding:0px"> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Settlements_in_Scottish_Borders111" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Scottish_Borders_settlements" title="Template:Scottish Borders settlements"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Scottish_Borders_settlements" title="Template talk:Scottish Borders settlements"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Scottish_Borders_settlements" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Scottish Borders settlements"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Settlements_in_Scottish_Borders111" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Settlements in <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Scottish Borders</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Towns</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Coldstream" title="Coldstream">Coldstream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duns,_Scottish_Borders" title="Duns, Scottish Borders">Duns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earlston" title="Earlston">Earlston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eyemouth" title="Eyemouth">Eyemouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galashiels" title="Galashiels">Galashiels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawick" title="Hawick">Hawick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Innerleithen" title="Innerleithen">Innerleithen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jedburgh" title="Jedburgh">Jedburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelso,_Scottish_Borders" title="Kelso, Scottish Borders">Kelso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauder" title="Lauder">Lauder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melrose,_Scottish_Borders" title="Melrose, Scottish Borders">Melrose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peebles" title="Peebles">Peebles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selkirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="Selkirk, Scottish Borders">Selkirk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Villages and hamlets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abbey_St_Bathans" title="Abbey St Bathans">Abbey St Bathans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allanton,_Scottish_Borders" title="Allanton, Scottish Borders">Allanton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancrum" title="Ancrum">Ancrum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashkirk" title="Ashkirk">Ashkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auchencrow" title="Auchencrow">Auchencrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayton,_Scottish_Borders" title="Ayton, Scottish Borders">Ayton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birgham" title="Birgham">Birgham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broughton,_Scottish_Borders" title="Broughton, Scottish Borders">Broughton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burnfoot,_Hawick" title="Burnfoot, Hawick">Burnfoot (Hawick)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burnmouth" title="Burnmouth">Burnmouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camptown,_Scottish_Borders" title="Camptown, Scottish Borders">Camptown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cardrona,_Scottish_Borders" title="Cardrona, Scottish Borders">Cardrona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chirnside" title="Chirnside">Chirnside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clovenfords" title="Clovenfords">Clovenfords</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cockburnspath" title="Cockburnspath">Cockburnspath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coldingham" title="Coldingham">Coldingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cove,_Scottish_Borders" title="Cove, Scottish Borders">Cove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denholm" title="Denholm">Denholm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dryburgh" title="Dryburgh">Dryburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddleston" title="Eddleston">Eddleston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgerston" title="Edgerston">Edgerston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edrom" title="Edrom">Edrom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ettrick,_Scotland" title="Ettrick, Scotland">Ettrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ettrickbridge" title="Ettrickbridge">Ettrickbridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fogo,_Scottish_Borders" title="Fogo, Scottish Borders">Fogo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foulden,_Scottish_Borders" title="Foulden, Scottish Borders">Foulden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gavinton" title="Gavinton">Gavinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon,_Scottish_Borders" title="Gordon, Scottish Borders">Gordon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grantshouse" title="Grantshouse">Grantshouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenlaw" title="Greenlaw">Greenlaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heriot,_Scottish_Borders" title="Heriot, Scottish Borders">Heriot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hume,_Scottish_Borders" title="Hume, Scottish Borders">Hume</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hutton,_Scottish_Borders" title="Hutton, Scottish Borders">Hutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirk_Yetholm" title="Kirk Yetholm">Kirk Yetholm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leitholm" title="Leitholm">Leitholm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lilliesleaf" title="Lilliesleaf">Lilliesleaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longformacus" title="Longformacus">Longformacus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morebattle" title="Morebattle">Morebattle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newcastleton" title="Newcastleton">Newcastleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newstead,_Scottish_Borders" title="Newstead, Scottish Borders">Newstead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newtown_St_Boswells" title="Newtown St Boswells">Newtown St Boswells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxton,_Scottish_Borders" title="Oxton, Scottish Borders">Oxton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paxton,_Scottish_Borders" title="Paxton, Scottish Borders">Paxton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preston,_Scottish_Borders" title="Preston, Scottish Borders">Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reston,_Scottish_Borders" title="Reston, Scottish Borders">Reston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roxburgh_(village)" title="Roxburgh (village)">Roxburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Abbs" title="St Abbs">St Abbs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Boswells" title="St Boswells">St Boswells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stichill" title="Stichill">Stichill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stow_of_Wedale" title="Stow of Wedale">Stow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swinton,_Scottish_Borders" title="Swinton, Scottish Borders">Swinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teviothead" title="Teviothead">Teviothead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Town_Yetholm" title="Town Yetholm">Town Yetholm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tweedbank" title="Tweedbank">Tweedbank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tweedsmuir" title="Tweedsmuir">Tweedsmuir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walkerburn" title="Walkerburn">Walkerburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Linton" title="West Linton">West Linton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitsome" title="Whitsome">Whitsome</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>See also <a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="List of places in the Scottish Borders">List of places in the Scottish Borders</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Rugby_union_in_the_Scottish_Borders281" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Rugby_in_the_Borders" title="Template:Rugby in the Borders"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Rugby_in_the_Borders" title="Template talk:Rugby in the Borders"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Rugby_in_the_Borders" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Rugby in the Borders"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Rugby_union_in_the_Scottish_Borders281" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Rugby_union_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Rugby union in the Scottish Borders">Rugby union in the Scottish Borders</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Governing body</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Rugby_Union" title="Scottish Rugby Union">Scottish Rugby Union</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Super_6_(rugby_union)" class="mw-redirect" title="Super 6 (rugby union)">Super 6</a> teams</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Melrose_RFC" title="Melrose RFC">Southern Knights</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Premiership_(rugby)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Premiership (rugby)">Premiership</a> teams</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hawick_RFC" title="Hawick RFC">Hawick RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jed-Forest_RFC" title="Jed-Forest RFC">Jed-Forest RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selkirk_RFC" title="Selkirk RFC">Selkirk RFC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National League teams</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_League_Division_One" title="Scottish National League Division One">Division 1</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gala_RFC" title="Gala RFC">Gala RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelso_RFC" title="Kelso RFC">Kelso RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melrose_RFC" title="Melrose RFC">Melrose RFC 2nd XV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_League_Division_Two" title="Scottish National League Division Two">Division 2</a>: <a href="/wiki/Peebles_RFC" title="Peebles RFC">Peebles RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_League_Division_Three" title="Scottish National League Division Three">Division 3</a>: <a href="/wiki/Berwick_RFC" title="Berwick RFC">Berwick RFC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/East_Regional_League_(rugby_union)" title="East Regional League (rugby union)">East Regional League</a> teams</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Duns_RFC" title="Duns RFC">Duns RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earlston_RFC" title="Earlston RFC">Earlston RFC</a></li> <li>Eyemouth RFC</li> <li>Gala Wanderers RFC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gala_Y.M._RFC" title="Gala Y.M. RFC">Gala Y.M. RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawick_Harlequins_RFC" title="Hawick Harlequins RFC">Hawick Harlequins RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawick_Linden_RFC" title="Hawick Linden RFC">Hawick Linden RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langholm_RFC" title="Langholm RFC">Langholm RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Boswells_RFC" title="St Boswells RFC">St Boswells RFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walkerburn_RFC" title="Walkerburn RFC">Walkerburn RFC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct clubs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Ancrum RFC</li> <li>Boncaster RFC</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Border_Reivers_(rugby_union)" title="Border Reivers (rugby union)">Border Reivers</a></li> <li>Border Rovers</li> <li>Buccleuch Thistle</li> <li>Darnick RFC</li> <li>Gala Abbotsford</li> <li>Gala Hearts</li> <li>Gala Thistle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawick_and_Wilton_RFC" title="Hawick and Wilton RFC">Hawick and Wilton RFC</a></li> <li>Hawick Athenic Star</li> <li>Hawick Orient</li> <li>Hawick St. Cuthberts</li> <li>Hawick Teviot Union</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawick_Trades" title="Hawick Trades">Hawick Trades</a></li> <li>Hawick Trinity</li> <li>Hawick Waverley</li> <li>Ladhope</li> <li>Lilliesleaf RFC</li> <li>Linden Star</li> <li>Newmill RFC</li> <li>Roxburgh RFC</li> <li>St. Ronans RFC</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tournaments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Border_League" title="Border League">Border League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borders_Sevens_Circuit" title="Borders Sevens Circuit">Borders Sevens Circuit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melrose_Sevens" title="Melrose Sevens">Melrose Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Langholm_Sevens" title="Langholm Sevens">Langholm Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawick_Sevens" title="Hawick Sevens">Hawick Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gala_Sevens" title="Gala Sevens">Gala Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berwick_Sevens" title="Berwick Sevens">Berwick Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peebles_Sevens" title="Peebles Sevens">Peebles Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earlston_Sevens" title="Earlston Sevens">Earlston Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jed-Forest_Sevens" title="Jed-Forest Sevens">Jed-Forest Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelso_Sevens" title="Kelso Sevens">Kelso Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selkirk_Sevens" title="Selkirk Sevens">Selkirk Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walkerburn_Sevens" title="Walkerburn Sevens">Walkerburn Sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawick_Linden_Sevens" title="Hawick Linden Sevens">Hawick Linden Sevens</a></li> <li>Hawick and Wilton Sevens</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Stadiums and related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greenyards" title="Greenyards">The Greenyards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mansfield_Park,_Hawick" title="Mansfield Park, Hawick">Mansfield Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Netherdale" title="Netherdale">Netherdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philiphaugh_Stadium" title="Philiphaugh Stadium">Philiphaugh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverside_Park,_Jedburgh" class="mw-redirect" title="Riverside Park, Jedburgh">Riverside Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_McLaren" title="Bill McLaren">Bill McLaren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melrose_Cup" title="Melrose Cup">Melrose Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rugby_sevens" title="Rugby sevens">Rugby sevens</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="NHS_Borders24" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:NHS_Borders" title="Template:NHS Borders"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:NHS_Borders" title="Template talk:NHS Borders"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:NHS_Borders" title="Special:EditPage/Template:NHS Borders"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="NHS_Borders24" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/NHS_Borders" title="NHS Borders">NHS Borders</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hospitals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Borders_General_Hospital" title="Borders General Hospital">Borders General Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawick_Community_Hospital" title="Hawick Community Hospital">Hawick Community Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hay_Lodge_Hospital" title="Hay Lodge Hospital">Hay Lodge Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelso_Hospital" title="Kelso Hospital">Kelso Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knoll_Hospital" title="Knoll Hospital">Knoll Hospital</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Scottish_Wildlife_Trust_reserves_in_the_Scottish_Borders64" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:SWT_reserves_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Template:SWT reserves in the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:SWT_reserves_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Template talk:SWT reserves in the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:SWT_reserves_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Special:EditPage/Template:SWT reserves in the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Scottish_Wildlife_Trust_reserves_in_the_Scottish_Borders64" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Wildlife_Trust" title="Scottish Wildlife Trust">Scottish Wildlife Trust</a> reserves in the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Scottish Borders</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bemersyde_Moss" title="Bemersyde Moss">Bemersyde Moss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Moss" title="Gordon Moss">Gordon Moss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hare_and_Dunhog_Mosses" title="Hare and Dunhog Mosses">Hare and Dunhog Mosses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoselaw_Loch_and_Din_Moss" title="Hoselaw Loch and Din Moss">Hoselaw Loch and Din Moss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pease_Dean" title="Pease Dean">Pease Dean</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whitlaw_Wood&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Whitlaw Wood (page does not exist)">Whitlaw Wood</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Castles_in_the_Scottish_Borders75" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Castles_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Template:Castles in the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Castles_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Template talk:Castles in the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Castles_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Castles in the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Castles_in_the_Scottish_Borders75" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_castles_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="List of castles in the Scottish Borders">Castles in the Scottish Borders</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ayton_Castle,_Scottish_Borders" title="Ayton Castle, Scottish Borders">Ayton Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billie_Castle" title="Billie Castle">Billie Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branxholme_Castle" title="Branxholme Castle">Branxholme Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cessford_Castle" title="Cessford Castle">Cessford Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cranshaws_Castle" title="Cranshaws Castle">Cranshaws Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cavers_Castle" title="Cavers Castle">Cavers Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drochil_Castle" title="Drochil Castle">Drochil Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dryhope_Tower" title="Dryhope Tower">Dryhope Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duns_Castle" title="Duns Castle">Duns Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edrington" title="Edrington">Edrington Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fast_Castle" title="Fast Castle">Fast Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fatlips_Castle" title="Fatlips Castle">Fatlips Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferniehirst_Castle" title="Ferniehirst Castle">Ferniehirst Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floors_Castle" title="Floors Castle">Floors Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fulton_Tower" title="Fulton Tower">Fulton Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenknowe_Tower" title="Greenknowe Tower">Greenknowe Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermitage_Castle" title="Hermitage Castle">Hermitage Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hume_Castle" title="Hume Castle">Hume Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jedburgh_Castle" title="Jedburgh Castle">Jedburgh Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirkhope_Tower" title="Kirkhope Tower">Kirkhope Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangerton_Tower" title="Mangerton Tower">Mangerton Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mervinslaw_Pele" title="Mervinslaw Pele">Mervinslaw Pele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neidpath_Castle" title="Neidpath Castle">Neidpath Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newark_Castle,_Selkirkshire" title="Newark Castle, Selkirkshire">Newark Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nisbet_House" title="Nisbet House">Nisbet House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roxburgh_Castle" title="Roxburgh Castle">Roxburgh Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smailholm_Tower" title="Smailholm Tower">Smailholm Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirlestane_Castle" title="Thirlestane Castle">Thirlestane Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tinnis_Castle_(Yarrow)" title="Tinnis Castle (Yarrow)">Tinnis (Yarrow)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traquair_House" title="Traquair House">Traquair House</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venlaw" title="Venlaw">Venlaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wedderburn_Castle" title="Wedderburn Castle">Wedderburn Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitslaid_Tower" title="Whitslaid Tower">Whitslaid Tower</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Listed_buildings_in_the_Scottish_Borders93" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Lists_of_listed_buildings_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Template:Lists of listed buildings in the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Lists_of_listed_buildings_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Template talk:Lists of listed buildings in the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Lists_of_listed_buildings_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Lists of listed buildings in the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Listed_buildings_in_the_Scottish_Borders93" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_the_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in the Scottish Borders">Listed buildings in the Scottish Borders</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Abbey_St_Bathans,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Abbey St Bathans, Scottish Borders">Abbey St Bathans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Ancrum,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Ancrum, Scottish Borders">Ancrum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Ashkirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Ashkirk, Scottish Borders">Ashkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Ayton,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Ayton, Scottish Borders">Ayton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Bedrule,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Bedrule, Scottish Borders">Bedrule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Bowden,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Bowden, Scottish Borders">Bowden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Broughton,_Glenholm_And_Kilbucho,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho, Scottish Borders">Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Bunkle_And_Preston,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Bunkle And Preston, Scottish Borders">Bunkle and Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Caddonfoot,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Caddonfoot, Scottish Borders">Caddonfoot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Castleton,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Castleton, Scottish Borders">Castleton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Cavers,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Cavers, Scottish Borders">Cavers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Channelkirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Channelkirk, Scottish Borders">Channelkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Chirnside,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Chirnside, Scottish Borders">Chirnside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Cockburnspath,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders">Cockburnspath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Coldingham,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Coldingham, Scottish Borders">Coldingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Coldstream,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Coldstream, Scottish Borders">Coldstream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Crailing,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Crailing, Scottish Borders">Crailing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Cranshaws,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Cranshaws, Scottish Borders">Cranshaws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Drumelzier,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Drumelzier, Scottish Borders">Drumelzier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Duns,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Duns, Scottish Borders">Duns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Earlston,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Earlston, Scottish Borders">Earlston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Eccles,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Eccles, Scottish Borders">Eccles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Eckford,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Eckford, Scottish Borders">Eckford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Eddleston,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Eddleston, Scottish Borders">Eddleston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Ednam,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Ednam, Scottish Borders">Ednam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Edrom,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Edrom, Scottish Borders">Edrom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Ettrick,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Ettrick, Scottish Borders">Ettrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Eyemouth,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Eyemouth, Scottish Borders">Eyemouth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Fala_And_Soutra,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Fala And Soutra, Scottish Borders">Fala and Soutra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Fogo,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Fogo, Scottish Borders">Fogo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Foulden,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Foulden, Scottish Borders">Foulden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Galashiels,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Galashiels, Scottish Borders">Galashiels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Gordon,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Gordon, Scottish Borders">Gordon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Greenlaw,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Greenlaw, Scottish Borders">Greenlaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Hawick,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Hawick, Scottish Borders">Hawick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Heriot,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Heriot, Scottish Borders">Heriot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Hobkirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Hobkirk, Scottish Borders">Hobkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Hownam,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Hownam, Scottish Borders">Hownam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Hume,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Hume, Scottish Borders">Hume</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Hutton,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Hutton, Scottish Borders">Hutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Innerleithen,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Innerleithen, Scottish Borders">Innerleithen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Jedburgh,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Jedburgh, Scottish Borders">Jedburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Kelso,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Kelso, Scottish Borders">Kelso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Kirkhope,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Kirkhope, Scottish Borders">Kirkhope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Kirkurd,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Kirkurd, Scottish Borders">Kirkurd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Ladykirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Ladykirk, Scottish Borders">Ladykirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Langton,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Langton, Scottish Borders">Langton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Lauder,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Lauder, Scottish Borders">Lauder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Legerwood,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Legerwood, Scottish Borders">Legerwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Lilliesleaf,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Lilliesleaf, Scottish Borders">Lilliesleaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Linton,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Linton, Scottish Borders">Linton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Longformacus,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Longformacus, Scottish Borders">Longformacus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Lyne,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Lyne, Scottish Borders">Lyne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Makerstoun,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Makerstoun, Scottish Borders">Makerstoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Manor,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Manor, Scottish Borders">Manor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Maxton,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Maxton, Scottish Borders">Maxton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Melrose,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Melrose, Scottish Borders">Melrose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Mertoun,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Mertoun, Scottish Borders">Mertoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Minto,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Minto, Scottish Borders">Minto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Mordington,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Mordington, Scottish Borders">Mordington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Morebattle,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Morebattle, Scottish Borders">Morebattle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Nenthorn,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Nenthorn, Scottish Borders">Nenthorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Newlands,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Newlands, Scottish Borders">Newlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Oxnam,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Oxnam, Scottish Borders">Oxnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Peebles,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Peebles, Scottish Borders">Peebles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Penicuik,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Penicuik, Scottish Borders">Penicuik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Polwarth,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Polwarth, Scottish Borders">Polwarth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Roberton,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Roberton, Scottish Borders">Roberton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Roxburgh,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Roxburgh, Scottish Borders">Roxburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Selkirk,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Selkirk, Scottish Borders">Selkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Skirling,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Skirling, Scottish Borders">Skirling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Smailholm,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Smailholm, Scottish Borders">Smailholm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Southdean,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Southdean, Scottish Borders">Southdean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Sprouston,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Sprouston, Scottish Borders">Sprouston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_St_Boswells,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in St Boswells, Scottish Borders">St Boswells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Stichill,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Stichill, Scottish Borders">Stichill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Stobo,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Stobo, Scottish Borders">Stobo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Stow,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Stow, Scottish Borders">Stow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Swinton,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Swinton, Scottish Borders">Swinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Teviothead,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Teviothead, Scottish Borders">Teviothead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Traquair,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Traquair, Scottish Borders">Traquair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Tweedsmuir,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Tweedsmuir, Scottish Borders">Tweedsmuir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Westruther,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Westruther, Scottish Borders">Westruther</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Whitsome,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Whitsome, Scottish Borders">Whitsome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Yarrow,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Yarrow, Scottish Borders">Yarrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_listed_buildings_in_Yetholm,_Scottish_Borders" title="List of listed buildings in Yetholm, Scottish Borders">Yetholm</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Council_elections_in_the_Scottish_Borders336" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Scottish_Borders_elections" title="Template:Scottish Borders elections"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Scottish_Borders_elections" title="Template talk:Scottish Borders elections"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Scottish_Borders_elections" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Scottish Borders elections"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Council_elections_in_the_Scottish_Borders336" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Council elections in the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Scottish Borders</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Borders_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Borders Council">Scottish Borders Regional Council</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1974_Borders_Regional_Council_election" title="1974 Borders Regional Council election">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_Borders_Regional_Council_election" title="1978 Borders Regional Council election">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_Borders_Regional_Council_election" title="1982 Borders Regional Council election">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_Borders_Regional_Council_election" title="1986 Borders Regional Council election">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_Borders_Regional_Council_election" title="1990 Borders Regional Council election">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_Borders_Regional_Council_election" title="1994 Borders Regional Council election">1994</a></li> <li>Abolished</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Borders_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Borders Council">Scottish Borders Council</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1995_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="1995 Scottish Borders Council election">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="1999 Scottish Borders Council election">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2003 Scottish Borders Council election">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2007 Scottish Borders Council election">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2012 Scottish Borders Council election">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2017 Scottish Borders Council election">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_Scottish_Borders_Council_election" title="2022 Scottish Borders Council election">2022</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Berwickshire" title="Berwickshire">Berwickshire District Council</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1974_Berwickshire_District_Council_election" title="1974 Berwickshire District Council election">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_Berwickshire_District_Council_election" title="1977 Berwickshire District Council election">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1980_Berwickshire_District_Council_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1980 Berwickshire District Council election (page does not exist)">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1984_Berwickshire_District_Council_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1984 Berwickshire District Council election (page does not exist)">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Berwickshire_District_Council_election" title="1988 Berwickshire District Council election">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Berwickshire_District_Council_election" title="1992 Berwickshire District Council election">1992</a></li> <li>Abolished</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ettrick_and_Lauderdale" title="Ettrick and Lauderdale">Ettrick and Lauderdale District Council</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1974_Ettrick_and_Lauderdale_District_Council_election" title="1974 Ettrick and Lauderdale District Council election">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1977_Ettrick_and_Lauderdale_District_Council_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1977 Ettrick and Lauderdale District Council election (page does not exist)">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1980_Ettrick_and_Lauderdale_District_Council_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1980 Ettrick and Lauderdale District Council election (page does not exist)">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1984_Ettrick_and_Lauderdale_District_Council_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1984 Ettrick and Lauderdale District Council election (page does not exist)">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Ettrick_and_Lauderdale_District_Council_election" title="1988 Ettrick and Lauderdale District Council election">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Ettrick_and_Lauderdale_District_Council_election" title="1992 Ettrick and Lauderdale District Council election">1992</a></li> <li>Abolished</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Roxburgh_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roxburgh (district)">Roxburgh District Council</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1974_Roxburgh_District_Council_election" title="1974 Roxburgh District Council election">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_Roxburgh_District_Council_election" title="1977 Roxburgh District Council election">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_Roxburgh_District_Council_election" title="1980 Roxburgh District Council election">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Roxburgh_District_Council_election" title="1984 Roxburgh District Council election">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Roxburgh_District_Council_election" title="1988 Roxburgh District Council election">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Roxburgh_District_Council_election" title="1992 Roxburgh District Council election">1992</a></li> <li>Abolished</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Tweeddale" title="Tweeddale">Tweeddale District Council</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1974_Tweeddale_District_Council_election" title="1974 Tweeddale District Council election">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_Tweeddale_District_Council_election" title="1977 Tweeddale District Council election">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_Tweeddale_District_Council_election" title="1980 Tweeddale District Council election">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Tweeddale_District_Council_election" title="1984 Tweeddale District Council election">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Tweeddale_District_Council_election" title="1988 Tweeddale District Council election">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Tweeddale_District_Council_election" title="1992 Tweeddale District Council election">1992</a></li> <li>Abolished</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Wards_of_the_Scottish_Borders29" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Wards_of_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Template:Wards of the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Wards_of_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Template talk:Wards of the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Wards_of_the_Scottish_Borders" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Wards of the Scottish Borders"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Wards_of_the_Scottish_Borders29" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Wards of the Scottish Borders</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tweeddale_West_(ward)" title="Tweeddale West (ward)">Tweeddale West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tweeddale_East_(ward)" title="Tweeddale East (ward)">Tweeddale East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galashiels_and_District_(ward)" title="Galashiels and District (ward)">Galashiels and District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selkirkshire_(ward)" title="Selkirkshire (ward)">Selkirkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leaderdale_and_Melrose_(ward)" title="Leaderdale and Melrose (ward)">Leaderdale and Melrose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mid_Berwickshire_(ward)" title="Mid Berwickshire (ward)">Mid Berwickshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Berwickshire_(ward)" title="East Berwickshire (ward)">East Berwickshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelso_and_District_(ward)" title="Kelso and District (ward)">Kelso and District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jedburgh_and_District_(ward)" title="Jedburgh and District (ward)">Jedburgh and District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawick_and_Denholm_(ward)" title="Hawick and Denholm (ward)">Hawick and Denholm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawick_and_Hermitage_(ward)" title="Hawick and Hermitage (ward)">Hawick and Hermitage</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Local_government_of_Scotland326" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#bfd7ff;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Scotland_subdivisions" title="Template:Scotland subdivisions"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Scotland_subdivisions" title="Template talk:Scotland subdivisions"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Scotland_subdivisions" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Scotland subdivisions"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Local_government_of_Scotland326" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Scotland" title="Local government in Scotland">Local government</a> of <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland" title="Subdivisions of Scotland">Council areas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_City_(council_area)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aberdeen City (council area)">Aberdeen City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeenshire" title="Aberdeenshire">Aberdeenshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angus,_Scotland" title="Angus, Scotland">Angus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argyll_and_Bute" title="Argyll and Bute">Argyll and Bute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clackmannanshire" title="Clackmannanshire">Clackmannanshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dumfries_and_Galloway" title="Dumfries and Galloway">Dumfries and Galloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dundee_City_(council_area)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dundee City (council area)">Dundee City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Ayrshire" title="East Ayrshire">East Ayrshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Dunbartonshire" title="East Dunbartonshire">East Dunbartonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Lothian" title="East Lothian">East Lothian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Renfrewshire" title="East Renfrewshire">East Renfrewshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Edinburgh_(council_area)" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Edinburgh (council area)">City of Edinburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falkirk_(council_area)" title="Falkirk (council area)">Falkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fife" title="Fife">Fife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_City_(council_area)" class="mw-redirect" title="Glasgow City (council area)">Glasgow City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_(council_area)" title="Highland (council area)">Highland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverclyde" title="Inverclyde">Inverclyde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midlothian" title="Midlothian">Midlothian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moray" title="Moray">Moray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outer_Hebrides" title="Outer Hebrides">Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Ayrshire" title="North Ayrshire">North Ayrshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Lanarkshire" title="North Lanarkshire">North Lanarkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney">Orkney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perth_and_Kinross" title="Perth and Kinross">Perth and Kinross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renfrewshire" title="Renfrewshire">Renfrewshire</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Scottish Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shetland" title="Shetland">Shetland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Ayrshire" title="South Ayrshire">South Ayrshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Lanarkshire" title="South Lanarkshire">South Lanarkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stirling_(council_area)" title="Stirling (council area)">Stirling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Dunbartonshire" title="West Dunbartonshire">West Dunbartonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Lothian" title="West Lothian">West Lothian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland" title="Subdivisions of Scotland">Councils</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_City_Council" title="Aberdeen City Council">Aberdeen City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeenshire_Council" title="Aberdeenshire Council">Aberdeenshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angus_Council" title="Angus Council">Angus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argyll_and_Bute_Council" title="Argyll and Bute Council">Argyll and Bute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clackmannanshire_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Clackmannanshire Council">Clackmannanshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dumfries_and_Galloway_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Dumfries and Galloway Council">Dumfries and Galloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dundee_City_Council" title="Dundee City Council">Dundee City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Ayrshire_Council" title="East Ayrshire Council">East Ayrshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Dunbartonshire_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="East Dunbartonshire Council">East Dunbartonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Lothian_Council" title="East Lothian Council">East Lothian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Renfrewshire_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="East Renfrewshire Council">East Renfrewshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Edinburgh_Council" title="City of Edinburgh Council">City of Edinburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falkirk_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Falkirk Council">Falkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fife_Council" title="Fife Council">Fife</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_City_Council" title="Glasgow City Council">Glasgow City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Council" title="Highland Council">Highland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverclyde_Council" title="Inverclyde Council">Inverclyde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midlothian_Council" title="Midlothian Council">Midlothian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moray_Council" title="Moray Council">Moray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comhairle_nan_Eilean_Siar" title="Comhairle nan Eilean Siar">Comhairle nan Eilean Siar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Ayrshire_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="North Ayrshire Council">North Ayrshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Lanarkshire_Council" title="North Lanarkshire Council">North Lanarkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orkney_Islands_Council" title="Orkney Islands Council">Orkney Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perth_and_Kinross_Council" title="Perth and Kinross Council">Perth and Kinross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renfrewshire_Council" title="Renfrewshire Council">Renfrewshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Borders_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Borders Council">Scottish Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shetland_Islands_Council" title="Shetland Islands Council">Shetland Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Ayrshire_Council" title="South Ayrshire Council">South Ayrshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Lanarkshire_Council" title="South Lanarkshire Council">South Lanarkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stirling_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Stirling Council">Stirling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Dunbartonshire_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="West Dunbartonshire Council">West Dunbartonshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Lothian_Council" title="West Lothian Council">West Lothian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/List_of_Scottish_council_areas_by_area" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Scottish council areas by area">List by area</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Scottish_council_areas_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Scottish council areas by population">population</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Scottish_council_areas_by_population_density" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Scottish council areas by population density">density</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Local_government_areas_of_Scotland,_in_use_1975_to_1996711" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3" style="background:#BFD7FF;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231" /><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Former_local_government_regions_of_Scotland" title="Template:Former local government regions of Scotland"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Former_local_government_regions_of_Scotland" title="Template talk:Former local government regions of Scotland"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Former_local_government_regions_of_Scotland" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Former local government regions of Scotland"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Local_government_areas_of_Scotland,_in_use_1975_to_1996711" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_Scotland_(1975%E2%80%931996)" title="Local government areas of Scotland (1975–1996)">Local government areas</a> of <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, in use 1975 to 1996</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Borders_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Borders (region)">Borders</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berwickshire_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Berwickshire (district)">Berwickshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ettrick_and_Lauderdale_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ettrick and Lauderdale (district)">Ettrick and Lauderdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roxburgh_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roxburgh (district)">Roxburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tweeddale_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tweeddale (district)">Tweeddale</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="10" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Scotland_1974_Administrative_Map.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Scotland_1974_Administrative_Map.png/200px-Scotland_1974_Administrative_Map.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="348" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Scotland_1974_Administrative_Map.png/300px-Scotland_1974_Administrative_Map.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Scotland_1974_Administrative_Map.png/400px-Scotland_1974_Administrative_Map.png 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="3476" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Central_Region,_Scotland" title="Central Region, Scotland">Central</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clackmannan_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Clackmannan (district)">Clackmannan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falkirk_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Falkirk (district)">Falkirk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stirling_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stirling (district)">Stirling</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dumfries_and_Galloway_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dumfries and Galloway (region)">Dumfries and<br /> Galloway</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Annandale_and_Eskdale_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Annandale and Eskdale (district)">Annandale and Eskdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nithsdale_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nithsdale (district)">Nithsdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stewartry_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stewartry (district)">Stewartry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wigtown_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wigtown (district)">Wigtown</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Fife_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fife (region)">Fife</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dunfermline_(district)" title="Dunfermline (district)">Dunfermline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirkcaldy_(district)" title="Kirkcaldy (district)">Kirkcaldy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_East_Fife_(district)" title="North East Fife (district)">North East Fife</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Grampian_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grampian (region)">Grampian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aberdeen (district)">City of Aberdeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banff_and_Buchan_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Banff and Buchan (district)">Banff and Buchan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_(district)" title="Gordon (district)">Gordon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kincardine_and_Deeside_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kincardine and Deeside (district)">Kincardine and Deeside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moray_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Moray (district)">Moray</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Highland_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Highland (region)">Highland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Badenoch_and_Strathspey_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Badenoch and Strathspey (district)">Badenoch and Strathspey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caithness_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Caithness (district)">Caithness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverness_(district)" title="Inverness (district)">Inverness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lochaber_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lochaber (district)">Lochaber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nairn_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nairn (district)">Nairn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ross_and_Cromarty_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ross and Cromarty (district)">Ross and Cromarty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skye_and_Lochalsh_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Skye and Lochalsh (district)">Skye and Lochalsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutherland_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sutherland (district)">Sutherland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lothian_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lothian (region)">Lothian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Lothian_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="East Lothian (district)">East Lothian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Edinburgh (district)">City of Edinburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midlothian_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Midlothian (district)">Midlothian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Lothian_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="West Lothian (district)">West Lothian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Strathclyde_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Strathclyde (region)">Strathclyde</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Argyll_and_Bute_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Argyll and Bute (district)">Argyll and Bute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bearsden_and_Milngavie_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bearsden and Milngavie (district)">Bearsden and Milngavie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strathkelvin_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Strathkelvin (district)">Strathkelvin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clydebank_(district)" title="Clydebank (district)">Clydebank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumbernauld_and_Kilsyth_(district)" title="Cumbernauld and Kilsyth (district)">Cumbernauld and Kilsyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumnock_and_Doon_Valley_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cumnock and Doon Valley (district)">Cumnock and Doon Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cunninghame_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cunninghame (district)">Cunninghame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dumbarton_(district)" title="Dumbarton (district)">Dumbarton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Kilbride_(district)" title="East Kilbride (district)">East Kilbride</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastwood_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastwood (district)">Eastwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_of_Glasgow_(1975%E2%80%931996)" title="City of Glasgow (1975–1996)">City of Glasgow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamilton_(Scottish_district)" title="Hamilton (Scottish district)">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inverclyde_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Inverclyde (district)">Inverclyde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilmarnock_and_Loudoun_(district)" title="Kilmarnock and Loudoun (district)">Kilmarnock and Loudoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyle_and_Carrick_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kyle and Carrick (district)">Kyle and Carrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clydesdale_(district)" title="Clydesdale (district)">Clydesdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monklands_(district)" title="Monklands (district)">Monklands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motherwell_(district)" title="Motherwell (district)">Motherwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renfrew_(district)" title="Renfrew (district)">Renfrew</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Tayside_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tayside (region)">Tayside</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angus_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Angus (district)">Angus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dundee_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dundee (district)">City of Dundee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perth_and_Kinross_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Perth and Kinross (district)">Perth and Kinross</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Island areas<sup><small>1</small></sup></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney">Orkney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shetland" title="Shetland">Shetland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Isles" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Isles">Western Isles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div><span style="position: relative; top: 0.2em;"><sup><small>1</small></sup></span> The <a href="/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_Scotland_(1973%E2%80%931996)#Islands_areas" class="mw-redirect" title="Local government areas of Scotland (1973–1996)">island areas</a> were <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authorities</a>, combining the powers of a region and a district.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1130092004">.mw-parser-output .portal-bar{font-size:88%;font-weight:bold;display:flex;justify-content:center;align-items:baseline}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-bordered{padding:0 2em;background-color:#fdfdfd;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;clear:both;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-related{font-size:100%;justify-content:flex-start}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-unbordered{padding:0 1.7em;margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-header{margin:0 1em 0 0.5em;flex:0 0 auto;min-height:24px}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-content{display:flex;flex-flow:row wrap;flex:0 1 auto;padding:0.15em 0;column-gap:1em;align-items:baseline;margin:0;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-content-related{margin:0;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-item{display:inline-block;margin:0.15em 0.2em;min-height:24px;line-height:24px}@media screen and (max-width:768px){.mw-parser-output .portal-bar{font-size:88%;font-weight:bold;display:flex;flex-flow:column wrap;align-items:baseline}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-header{text-align:center;flex:0;padding-left:0.5em;margin:0 auto}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-related{font-size:100%;align-items:flex-start}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-content{display:flex;flex-flow:row wrap;align-items:center;flex:0;column-gap:1em;border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;margin:0 auto;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portal-bar-content-related{border-top:none;margin:0;list-style:none}}.mw-parser-output .navbox+link+.portal-bar,.mw-parser-output .navbox+style+.portal-bar,.mw-parser-output .navbox+link+.portal-bar-bordered,.mw-parser-output .navbox+style+.portal-bar-bordered,.mw-parser-output .sister-bar+link+.portal-bar,.mw-parser-output .sister-bar+style+.portal-bar,.mw-parser-output .portal-bar+.navbox-styles+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .portal-bar+.navbox-styles+.sister-bar{margin-top:-1px}</style><div class="portal-bar noprint metadata noviewer portal-bar-bordered" role="navigation" aria-label="Portals"><span class="portal-bar-header"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Portals" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Portals">Portal</a>:</span><ul class="portal-bar-content"><li class="portal-bar-item"><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/21px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/32px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Flag_of_Scotland.svg/42px-Flag_of_Scotland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Scotland" title="Portal:Scotland">Scotland</a></li></ul></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" aria-labelledby="Authority_control_databases_frameless&#124;text-top&#124;10px&#124;alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata&#124;link=https&#58;//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211113#identifiers&#124;class=noprint&#124;Edit_this_at_Wikidata1262" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Authority_control_databases_frameless&#124;text-top&#124;10px&#124;alt=Edit_this_at_Wikidata&#124;link=https&#58;//www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211113#identifiers&#124;class=noprint&#124;Edit_this_at_Wikidata1262" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Help:Authority_control" title="Help:Authority control">Authority control databases</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q211113#identifiers" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">International</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><ul><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://isni.org/isni/0000000105228192">ISNI</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://viaf.org/viaf/235561177">VIAF</a></span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">National</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><ul><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://d-nb.info/gnd/4226915-5">Germany</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/nr2001010255">United States</a></span><ul><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh95009812">2</a></span></li></ul></li><li><span class="uid"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Scottish Borders (Skotsko)"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://aleph.nkp.cz/F/?func=find-c&local_base=aut&ccl_term=ica=ge128788&CON_LNG=ENG">Czech Republic</a></span></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nli.org.il/en/authorities/987007566282805171">Israel</a></span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Geographic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><ul><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://musicbrainz.org/area/b7622e47-b3ed-41ac-9ef8-be3606174da3">MusicBrainz area</a></span></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://auth.wikimedia.org/loginwiki/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&oldid=1281266700">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&oldid=1281266700</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Scottish_Borders" title="Category:Scottish Borders">Scottish Borders</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Council_areas_of_Scotland" title="Category:Council areas of Scotland">Council areas of Scotland</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Regions_of_Scotland" title="Category:Regions of Scotland">Regions of Scotland</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Northumbria" title="Category:Northumbria">Northumbria</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Southern_Uplands" title="Category:Southern Uplands">Southern Uplands</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:States_and_territories_established_in_1996" title="Category:States and territories established in 1996">States and territories established in 1996</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:1996_establishments_in_Scotland" title="Category:1996 establishments in Scotland">1996 establishments in Scotland</a></li></ul></div><div id="mw-hidden-catlinks" class="mw-hidden-catlinks mw-hidden-cats-hidden">Hidden categories: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Pages_using_gadget_WikiMiniAtlas" title="Category:Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas">Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_bot:_original_URL_status_unknown" title="Category:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown">CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_with_short_description" title="Category:Articles with short description">Articles with short description</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_matches_Wikidata" title="Category:Short description matches Wikidata">Short description matches Wikidata</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Use_dmy_dates_from_September_2024" title="Category:Use dmy dates from September 2024">Use dmy dates from September 2024</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Use_British_English_from_September_2024" title="Category:Use British English from September 2024">Use British English from September 2024</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Short_description_is_different_from_Wikidata" title="Category:Short description is different from Wikidata">Short description is different from Wikidata</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Coordinates_on_Wikidata" title="Category:Coordinates on Wikidata">Coordinates on Wikidata</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_a_citation_from_the_1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica_with_Wikisource_reference" title="Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference">Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_text_from_the_1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica">Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Commons_category_link_is_on_Wikidata" title="Category:Commons category link is on Wikidata">Commons category link is on Wikidata</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Webarchive_template_wayback_links" title="Category:Webarchive template wayback links">Webarchive template wayback links</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 19 March 2025, at 09:44<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms_of_Use" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a> and <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy policy">Privacy Policy</a>. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/">Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.</a>, a non-profit organization.</li> </ul> <ul id="footer-places"> <li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy policy</a></li> <li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About">About Wikipedia</a></li> <li id="footer-places-disclaimers"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-contact"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us">Contact Wikipedia</a></li> <li id="footer-places-wm-codeofconduct"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct">Code of Conduct</a></li> <li id="footer-places-developers"><a href="https://developer.wikimedia.org">Developers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-statslink"><a href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org">Statistics</a></li> <li id="footer-places-cookiestatement"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Cookie_statement">Cookie statement</a></li> <li id="footer-places-mobileview"><a href="//en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Borders&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile" class="noprint stopMobileRedirectToggle">Mobile view</a></li> </ul> <ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint"> <li id="footer-copyrightico"><a href="https://www.wikimedia.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><picture><source media="(min-width: 500px)" srcset="/static/images/footer/wikimedia-button.svg" width="84" height="29"><img src="/static/images/footer/wikimedia.svg" width="25" height="25" alt="Wikimedia Foundation" lang="en" loading="lazy"></picture></a></li> <li id="footer-poweredbyico"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><picture><source media="(min-width: 500px)" srcset="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki.svg" width="88" height="31"><img src="/w/resources/assets/mediawiki_compact.svg" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" lang="en" width="25" height="25" loading="lazy"></picture></a></li> </ul> </footer> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-header-container vector-sticky-header-container"> <div id="vector-sticky-header" class="vector-sticky-header"> <div class="vector-sticky-header-start"> <div class="vector-sticky-header-icon-start vector-button-flush-left vector-button-flush-right" aria-hidden="true"> <button class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-sticky-header-search-toggle" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="ui.vector-sticky-search-form.icon"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-search mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-search"></span> <span>Search</span> </button> </div> <div role="search" class="vector-search-box-vue vector-search-box-show-thumbnail vector-search-box"> <div class="vector-typeahead-search-container"> <div class="cdx-typeahead-search cdx-typeahead-search--show-thumbnail"> <form action="/w/index.php" id="vector-sticky-search-form" class="cdx-search-input cdx-search-input--has-end-button"> <div class="cdx-search-input__input-wrapper" data-search-loc="header-moved"> <div class="cdx-text-input cdx-text-input--has-start-icon"> <input class="cdx-text-input__input" type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search Wikipedia"> <span class="cdx-text-input__icon cdx-text-input__start-icon"></span> </div> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Special:Search"> </div> <button class="cdx-button cdx-search-input__end-button">Search</button> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-header-context-bar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-sticky-header-toc" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-sticky-header-toc vector-sticky-header-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-sticky-header-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-sticky-header-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-sticky-header-toc-label" for="vector-sticky-header-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-listBullet mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-listBullet"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Toggle the table of contents</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-sticky-header-toc-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <div class="vector-sticky-header-context-bar-primary" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="mw-page-title-main">Scottish Borders</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-header-end" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="vector-sticky-header-icons"> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-talk-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="talk-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-speechBubbles mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-speechBubbles"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-subject-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="subject-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-article mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-article"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-history-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="history-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-history mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-history"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only mw-watchlink" id="ca-watchstar-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="watch-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-star mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-star"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-edit-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="wikitext-edit-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikiText mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-wikiText"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-ve-edit-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="ve-edit-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-edit mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-edit"></span> <span></span> </a> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only" id="ca-viewsource-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="ve-edit-protected-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-editLock mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-editLock"></span> <span></span> </a> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-header-buttons"> <button class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet mw-interlanguage-selector" id="p-lang-btn-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-wikimedia-language"></span> <span>42 languages</span> </button> <a href="#" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive" id="ca-addsection-sticky-header" tabindex="-1" data-event-name="addsection-sticky-header"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-speechBubbleAdd-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-speechBubbleAdd-progressive"></span> <span>Add topic</span> </a> </div> <div class="vector-sticky-header-icon-end"> <div class="vector-user-links"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mw-portlet mw-portlet-dock-bottom emptyPortlet" id="p-dock-bottom"> <ul> </ul> </div> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgHostname":"mw-web.codfw.main-65585cc8dc-n4276","wgBackendResponseTime":187,"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"1.035","walltime":"1.266","ppvisitednodes":{"value":11541,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":349540,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":79022,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":27,"limit":100},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":16,"limit":500},"unstrip-depth":{"value":1,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":206586,"limit":5000000},"entityaccesscount":{"value":1,"limit":400},"timingprofile":["100.00% 1001.132 1 -total"," 22.08% 221.090 2 Template:Infobox"," 19.54% 195.650 1 Template:Infobox_settlement"," 17.93% 179.504 2 Template:Reflist"," 11.78% 117.944 1 Template:Navboxes"," 9.61% 96.168 17 Template:Cite_web"," 9.15% 91.586 10 Template:Navbox"," 6.16% 61.685 1 Template:Short_description"," 6.11% 61.171 1 Template:Infobox_legislature"," 6.01% 60.141 1 Template:Location_map+"]},"scribunto":{"limitreport-timeusage":{"value":"0.564","limit":"10.000"},"limitreport-memusage":{"value":14476938,"limit":52428800},"limitreport-logs":"anchor_id_list = table#1 {\n [\"CITEREF1995\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFBanks,_F._R._(Francis_Richard)1951\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFChisholm1911\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFContact_numbers_for_BBC_Scotland\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFJaniak2020\"] = 1,\n [\"CITEREFKelly2022\"] = 1,\n}\ntemplate_list = table#1 {\n [\"Authority control\"] = 1,\n [\"Castles in the Scottish Borders\"] = 1,\n [\"Citation\"] = 1,\n [\"Cite legislation Scotland\"] = 1,\n [\"Cite legislation UK\"] = 3,\n [\"Cite news\"] = 6,\n [\"Cite web\"] = 15,\n [\"Collapsible list\"] = 2,\n [\"Color box\"] = 6,\n [\"Columns-list\"] = 1,\n [\"Commons category\"] = 1,\n [\"Coord\"] = 19,\n [\"EB1911\"] = 1,\n [\"Efn\"] = 2,\n [\"For\"] = 1,\n [\"Former local government regions of Scotland\"] = 1,\n [\"Harvid\"] = 1,\n [\"Infobox legislature\"] = 1,\n [\"Infobox settlement\"] = 1,\n [\"Left\"] = 1,\n [\"Lists of listed buildings in the Scottish Borders\"] = 1,\n [\"Location map+\"] = 1,\n [\"Location map~\"] = 18,\n [\"London Gazette\"] = 1,\n [\"NHS Borders\"] = 1,\n [\"Navboxes\"] = 1,\n [\"Nbsp\"] = 2,\n [\"Notelist\"] = 1,\n [\"Nowrap\"] = 6,\n [\"Party color\"] = 18,\n [\"Party name with colour\"] = 12,\n [\"Portal bar\"] = 1,\n [\"Redirect\"] = 1,\n [\"Reflist\"] = 1,\n [\"Rugby in the Borders\"] = 1,\n [\"SWT reserves in the Scottish Borders\"] = 1,\n [\"Scotland settlement population citation\"] = 1,\n [\"Scotland subdivisions\"] = 1,\n [\"Scottish Borders elections\"] = 1,\n [\"Scottish Borders settlements\"] = 1,\n [\"Scottish council area rank\"] = 1,\n [\"Scottish council population rank\"] = 1,\n [\"Scottish locality populations\"] = 8,\n [\"Scottish settlement populations\"] = 2,\n [\"See also\"] = 1,\n [\"Sfn\"] = 4,\n [\"Short description\"] = 1,\n [\"UK council control\"] = 1,\n [\"UK subdivision area\"] = 1,\n [\"UK subdivision density\"] = 1,\n [\"UK subdivision population\"] = 1,\n [\"UK subdivision statistics citation\"] = 1,\n [\"UK subdivision statistics year\"] = 1,\n [\"URL\"] = 2,\n [\"Unbulleted list\"] = 1,\n [\"Use British English\"] = 1,\n [\"Use dmy dates\"] = 1,\n [\"Wards of the Scottish Borders\"] = 1,\n [\"Webarchive\"] = 1,\n}\narticle_whitelist = table#1 {\n}\nciteref_patterns = table#1 {\n \"Gazette%d+\",\n}\n"},"cachereport":{"origin":"mw-web.codfw.main-5c6f46dcf-cpvv7","timestamp":"20250331025535","ttl":2592000,"transientcontent":false}}});});</script> <script type="application/ld+json">{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Article","name":"Scottish Borders","url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scottish_Borders","sameAs":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q211113","mainEntity":"http:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/entity\/Q211113","author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Contributors to Wikimedia projects"},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.wikimedia.org\/static\/images\/wmf-hor-googpub.png"}},"datePublished":"2002-11-01T11:47:45Z","dateModified":"2025-03-19T09:44:29Z","image":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a7\/Scottish_Borders_UK_location_map.svg","headline":"council area of Scotland"}</script> </body> </html>