Walking in the Scottish Borders

Ronald Turnbull writes regularly for TGO, Lakeland Walker, Trail and Cumbria magazines and has won the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence for his guidebooks on multiple occasions. He has written many other Cicerone guides including Walking in the Galloway Hills, Walking in the Southern Uplands, The Book of the Bivvy and Not the West Highland Way.

• Map key Overview map Introduction The borders of the Borders Land of ballads Geology of the Scottish Borders Wildlife When to walk Getting there Getting around Accommodation Maps Access Safety in the hills Using this guide 1: The Cheviots (south) Walk 1 Shillhope Law from Alwinton Walk 2 Windy Gyle Walk 3 Linhope Spout Walk 4 Ingram hillforts Walk 5 A Hedgehope Horseshoe to The Cheviot 2: The Cheviots (north) Walk 6 Akeld to Humbleton Hill Walk 7 The Cheviot: Hen Hole and Bizzle Hole Walk 8 Newton Tors Walk 9 Yeavering Bell Walk 10 Forts for the day: Great Hetha and Ring Chesters Walk 11 Yetholm to The Schil Walk 12 Staerough Hill Walk 13 Grubbit Law and Wideopen Hill Walk 14 Dere Street to Chew Green 3: The Tweed Walk 15 Ford to Roughting Linn Walk 16 Horncliffe to Norham Walk 17 St Abb's Head Walk 18 Kelso and River Teviot Walk 19 Roxburgh village and viaduct Walk 20 Rubers Law Walk 21 Waterloo Monument Walk 22 Dryburgh Abbey and the Tweed Walk 23 Tweed and Eildon Walk 24 A Melrose Ramble 4: Yarrow and Ettrick Walk 25 Bowhill: Duchess Drive Walk 26 Ettrickbridge and Dryhope Tower Walk 27 Broadmeadows to the Minchmoor Road Walk 28 Yarrow to Glengaber Hill Walk 29 St Mary's Loch Walk 30 Loch of the Lowes and Peniestone Knowe Walk 31 Bodesbeck Law Walk 32 Ettrick Head Horseshoe Walk 33 Selcoth Burn and Potburn Hass Walk 34 Croft Head and Capel Fell 5: Moffat Hills Walk 35 Loch Skeen and White Coomb Walk 36 Dob's Linn to Loch Skeen Walk 37 Hart Fell Walk 38 Devil's Beef Tub Walk 39 Devil's Beef Tub from Moffat Walk 40 Gameshope circuit 6: Manor Hills Walk 41 Traquair: the Raxed Thrapple Walk 42 Dun Rig and Glen Sax Walk 43 Cademuir Hill and the Tweed Walk 44 Pykestone Hill from Drumelzier Walk 45 Broad Law 7: Longer walks and expeditions Walk 46 Walking the Border: Gretna to Berwick Other long routes St Cuthbert's Way Moffat to Peebles Wooler to Carter Bar Borders Abbeys Way Southern Upland Way (east) Berwickshire Coastal Path John Buchan Way Cross Borders Drove Road Annandale Way Appendix A Route summary table Appendix B Important information and facilities by area