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Roxburghshire
Also known as: Siorrachd Rosbroig
Roxburghshire in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Roxburghshire is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the northwest, and Berwickshire to the north. To the southwest it borders Cumberland and to the southeast Northumberland, both in England. It was named after the Royal Burgh of Roxburgh, a town which declined markedly in the 15th century and is no longer in existence. Latterly, the county town of Roxburghshire was Jedburgh. The county has much the same area as Teviotdale, the basin drained by the River Teviot and tributaries, together with the adjacent stretch of the Tweed into which it flows. The term is often treated as synonymous with Roxburghshire, but may omit Liddesdale as Liddel Water drains to the west coast.
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Background
History
The county appears to have originated in the 12th century with the creation of the sheriffdom of Roxburgh. The first known sheriff is Gospatric (sheriff of Roxburgh). The hereditary sheriffship of Roxburghshire was possessed by the family of Douglas until the abolition of heritable jurisdictions in the 18th century. The county was constantly fought over in the Middle Ages as part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars, before the border settled into roughly its modern form with the Treaty of York in 1237. The violence and lawlessness of these times gave rise to the Border Reivers. The ancient royal burgh of Roxburgh, from which the county had taken its name, fell into decay by the fifteenth century.…
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- Coordinates
- 55.5689, -2.4783
Sources
- wikidata: Q664892 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Roxburghshire (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Roxburghshire?
- Roxburghshire is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.5689°, -2.4783°.