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Hawick (Haaick, Hamhaig) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. [1]

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A68 road

The A68 is a major road in the United Kingdom, running from Darlington in England to the A720 in Edinburgh.

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A7 road (Great Britain)

The A7 is a major trunk road in the United Kingdom, that runs south from Edinburgh in Central Scotland to Carlisle in North West England.

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Andrew Smith (zoologist)

Sir Andrew Smith KCB (3 December 1797 – 11 August 1872) was a Scottish surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoologist.

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Anne Redpath

Anne Redpath (1895–1965) was a Scottish artist whose vivid domestic still lifes are among her best-known works.

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Ba game

Ba game is a version of medieval football played in Scotland, primarily in Orkney and the Scottish Borders, around Christmas and New Year.

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Bailleul, Nord

Bailleul (Belle in Dutch) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Beeching cuts

The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.

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Berwick-upon-Tweed

Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sooth Berwick, Bearaig a Deas) is a town in the county of Northumberland.

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Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (UK Parliament constituency)

Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk is a constituency of the British House of Commons, located in the south of Scotland within the Scottish Borders council area.

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Bill McLaren

William Pollock McLaren, CBE (16 October 1923 – 19 January 2010) was a Scottish rugby union commentator, teacher, journalist and one time rugby player.

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Borders Abbeys Way

The Borders Abbeys Way is a long-distance footpath in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

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Borders Railway

The Borders Railway connects the city of Edinburgh with Galashiels and Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders.

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Brian Balfour-Oatts

Brian Balfour-Oatts (born 1966) is a British art dealer, collector and writer, particularly noted for his 2005 publication William Scott: A Survey of His Original Prints, the standard reference work and de facto catalogue raisonné of William Scott's graphic work.

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Brian Bonsor

James Brian Bonsor MBE (21 August 1926 – 22 February 2011) was a Scottish-born composer and teacher specialising in the recorder.

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Burnfoot, Scottish Borders

Burnfoot (Bun na h-Aibhne, Burnfit.) is a housing estate just east of the A7, in the northern part of Hawick, by the Boonraw Burn, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

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Carlisle, Cumbria

Carlisle (or from Cumbric: Caer Luel Cathair Luail) is the county town of Cumbria.

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Carter Bar

Carter Bar is a point on the England–Scotland border, in Roxburghshire and Northumberland.

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Cashmere wool

Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a luxury fiber obtained from cashmere goats and other types of goat.

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Champion Doug Veitch

Douglas Veitch, better known as Champion Doug Veitch (born 1960, Hawick, Scotland)Frame, Pete (1999) Pete Frame's Rockin' Around Britain: Rock'n'roll Landmarks of the UK and Ireland, Omnibus Press,, p. 233 is a Scottish musician and songwriter.

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Chay Blyth

Sir Charles Blyth, CBE, BEM (born 14 May 1940), known as Chay Blyth, is a Scottish yachtsman and rower.

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Common Riding

Common Riding is an annual event celebrated in Scottish Border towns as well as in other locations.

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Dave Valentine

David Donald Valentine (12 September 1926 – 14 August 1976) was a Scottish representative rugby union, and World Cup winning rugby league footballer, a dual-code rugby international who played in the 1940s and 1950s, and coach of the 1960s.

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David Wallace (physicist)

Sir David James Wallace, CBE, FRS, FRSE, FREng (born 7 October 1945) is a British physicist and academic.

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East of Scotland Football League

The East of Scotland Football League (EoSFL) is a league of football teams from south-east Scotland, which was formed in 1923.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edinburgh Airport

Edinburgh Airport (Edinburgh Airport, Port-adhair Dhùn Èideann) is an airport located in the Ingliston area of the City of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Francis George Scott

Francis George Scott (25 January 1880 – 6 November 1958) was a Scottish composer.

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Francis Walsingham (Jesuit)

Francis Walsingham (baptised 7 February 1577 – 1 July 1647) was an English Jesuit priest, who assumed the name John Fennell.

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Galashiels

Galashiels (Gallae, An Geal Àth) is a town in the Scottish Borders and historic county of Selkirkshire, on the Gala Water river.

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Hawick News

Hawick News is a tabloid newspaper that covers the area of Hawick, one of the larger towns in the Scottish Borders.

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Hawick RFC

Hawick Rugby Football Club is an amateur rugby union side, currently playing in the Scottish Premiership and Border League.

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Hawick Royal Albert F.C.

Hawick Royal Albert Football Club are a Scottish football club who play home matches in the town of Hawick but who train in, and source all of their players from, the Lothians.

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Henry Riddell (poet)

Henry Scott Riddell (23 September 1798 – 30 July 1870) was a Scottish poet and songwriter.

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Isobel Baillie

Dame Isobel Baillie, DBE (9 March 189524 September 1983) was a Scottish soprano, popular in opera, oratorio and lieder.

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James Murray (lexicographer)

Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA (7 February 1837 – 26 July 1915) was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist.

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James Paris Lee

James Paris Lee (9 August 1831 – 24 February 1904) was a British and later American inventor and arms designer, best known for inventing the action and magazine used in the Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfield series of rifles.

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James Wilson (businessman)

James Wilson (3 June 1805 – 11 August 1860) was a Scottish businessman, economist, and Liberal politician who founded The Economist weekly and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which merged with Standard Bank in 1969 to form Standard Chartered.

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Jedburgh

Jedburgh (Deadard; Jeddart or Jethart) is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the historic county of Roxburghshire.

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Jim Renwick

Jim Renwick (born 12 February 1952) was one of Scotland's rugby players, usually at centre.

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Jimmie Guthrie

Andrew James Guthrie (23 May 1897 in Hawick, UK – 8 August 1937) was a Scottish motorcycle racer famous for 19 motorcycle Grand Prix wins, 3 victories in the North West 200 and 6 wins at the Isle of Man TT races.

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John Blackwood McEwen

Sir John Blackwood McEwen (13 April 1868 – 14 June 1948) was a Scottish classical composer and educator.

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John Daykins

John Brunton Daykins VC MM (Ormiston Farm, Hawick, 26 March 1883 – 24 January 1933, Edinburgh) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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John Renbourn

John Renbourn (8 August 1944 – 26 March 2015) was an English guitarist and songwriter.

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Johnstons of Elgin

Johnstons of Elgin, also known as Johnstons Cashmere, is a woollen mill in Elgin, Moray, Scotland.

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Knitted fabric

Knitted fabric is a textile that results from knitting.

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Langholm

Langholm, also known colloquially as the "Muckle Toon", is a burgh in Dumfries and Galloway in southern Scotland.

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List of places in Scotland

This List of places in Scotland is a complete collection of lists of places in Scotland.

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List of places in the Scottish Borders

This list of places in the Scottish Borders includes towns, villages, hamlets, castles, golf courses, historic houses, hillforts, lighthouses, nature reserves, reservoirs, rivers, and other places of interest in the Scottish Borders council area of Scotland.

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Lyle & Scott

Lyle & Scott is a Scottish knitwear brand well known for its golfing knitwear.

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Matt Leyden

Matthew Leyden (c.1904 — December 23, 1975) was a former ice hockey executive, administrator, and builder with the Ontario Hockey Association; and a long time manager of the Oshawa Generals.

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Merino

The Merino is one of the most historically relevant and economically influential breeds of sheep, very prized for its wool.

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Motte-and-bailey castle

A motte-and-bailey castle is a fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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Newcastle Airport

Newcastle International Airport is an international airport located near the main area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, about 6.5 miles (10.5km) north-west of the city centre.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

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Nigel Griffiths

Nigel Griffiths (born 20 May 1955) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South from 1987 to 2010.

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Nord (French department)

Nord (North; Noorderdepartement) is a department in the far north of France.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Points of the compass

The points of the compass mark the divisions on a compass, which is primarily divided into four points: north, south, east, and west.

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Pringle of Scotland

Pringle of Scotland is a fashion brand renowned for luxury cashmere knitwear and holds the royal warrant as manufacturers of knitted garments. It is one of the world’s oldest continually operating fashion companies. The company has its flagship stores in London's Mount Street, Glasgow and Shanghai and is sold by retailers in 15 countries.

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River Teviot

The River Teviot, or Teviot Water, is a river of the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and a tributary of the River Tweed.

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Rough Guides

Rough Guides Ltd is a British travel guidebook and reference publisher, since November 2017 owned by APA Publications.

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Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale

Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Rosbrog, Eadaraig agus Srath Labhdair in Scottish Gaelic) is a lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Roxburghshire

Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Scottish baronial architecture

Scottish Baronial architecture (often Scots Baronial and sometimes Baronial style) is a style of architecture with its origins in the sixteenth century.

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Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders (The Mairches, "The Marches"; Scottish Gaelic: Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Selkirk, Scottish Borders

Selkirk is a town and historic Royal Burgh in the Scottish Borders Council district of southeastern Scotland.

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Shires of Scotland

The counties or shires of Scotland (Siorrachdan na h-Alba) are geographic subdivisions of Scotland established in the Middle Ages.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.

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Slitrig Water

Slitrig Water (archaic Scots: Slitterick Waiter; current Southern Scots: Slitrig Witter), also known as the River Slitrig, is a river in the Scottish Borders.

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Southern Scots

Southern Scots is the dialect (or group of dialects) of Scots spoken in the Scottish Borders counties of mid and east Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire, with the notable exception of Berwickshire and Peeblesshire, which are, like Edinburgh, part of the SE Central Scots dialect area.

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Southern Uplands

The Southern Uplands are the southernmost and least populous of mainland Scotland's three major geographic areas (the others being the Central Lowlands and the Highlands).

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Steve Hislop

Robert Steven 'Hizzy' Hislop (11 January 1962 – 30 July 2003) was a Scottish motorcycle racer.

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Stirches

Stirches is an area of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, mostly consisting of ex-council housing built in 1973.

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Stuart Easton

Stuart Easton (born 21 July 1983 in Hawick) is a British professional motorcycle racer.

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Stuart Hogg

Stuart Hogg (born 24 June 1992) is a Scottish rugby union player who has more than fifty caps for Scotland and plays for Glasgow Warriors.

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Subdivisions of Scotland

For local government purposes, Scotland is divided into 32 areas designated as "council areas", which are all governed by single-tier authorities designated as "councils".

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Teribus ye teri odin

Teribus ye teri odin or teribus an teriodin is popularly believed to have been the war cry of the men of Hawick at the Battle of Flodden, and still preserved in the traditions of the town.

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Tony Stanger

Anthony George Stanger (born 14 May 1968) is a former Scottish international rugby union player, and is Scotland's joint record try scorer with 23 tries.

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Tweedbank railway station

Tweedbank railway station in Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders is the southern terminus of the Borders Railway (the name given to the partly reopened Waverley Route).

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Kingdom census, 2001

A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

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Waverley Route

The Waverley Route was a railway line that ran south from Edinburgh, through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle.

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William Landles

William Landles (25 November 1923 – 17 August 2016) was a Scottish artist and sculptor from the Scottish Borders town of Hawick.

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Wilton Dean

Wilton Dean is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the Cala Burn, and close to the River Teviot.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawick

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