Roberton, Scottish Borders

Roberton
Scots: Raberton

Roberton
Roberton
 Roberton shown within the Scottish Borders
LanguageEnglish
Southern Scots
OS grid referenceNT430143
Council areaScottish Borders
Lieutenancy areaRoxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town HAWICK
Postcode district TD9
Dialling code 01450
Police Scottish
Fire Scottish
Ambulance Scottish
EU Parliament Scotland
UK ParliamentBerwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Scottish ParliamentEttrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire
List of places
UK
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Coordinates: 55°25′10″N 2°54′02″W / 55.4194°N 2.9006°W / 55.4194; -2.9006

Roberton is a small village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the B711 and near to the A7, five miles from Hawick, 22 miles from Galashiels, and 23 miles from Langholm. It is situated by the Ale Water, the Alemoor Loch and the Borthwick Water, and nearby are Branxholme, Broadhaugh, Burnfoot and the Craik Forest.

Borders Poet

The Borders poet William Henry Ogilvie was born in Kelso in 1869. A cairn has been erected in his memory. "The hill road to Roberton's a steep road to climb, But where your foot has crushed it, you can smell the scented thyme, And if your heart's a Border heart, look down to Harden Glen, And hear the blue hills ringing with the restless hoofs again...."[1]

Borthwick Mains Symbol Stone

Half-a-mile to the east of the village, in front of the house at Borthwick Mains, is a fish symbol-stone, possibly representing a salmon.[2] The stone is 1.5 metres high, and the figure of a fish is almost a metre long, with the tail downwards, cut into the stone with pecked lines.[2] It is similar to class 1 Pictish symbol stones of the 6th or 7th century, but its status is doubtful, and it may belong to a more recent period.[3]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Southern Reporter, 27 August 2009: "Rightful honour restored to poet Will Ogilvie on Road to Roberton"
  2. 1 2 Borthwick Mains Carved Stone, RCHAMS
  3. ↑ Iain Fraser (2008) The Pictish symbol stones of Scotland, page 8. RCHAMS

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