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	Selkirkshire - LoveToKnow 1911
		The principal rivers are the Ettrick (32 m.) and its left-hand affluent the Yarrow (14 m.), but for a few miles the Tweed traverses the north of the county.
		The land between the Ettrick and the Tweed was formerly covered with forest to such an extent that the sheriffdom was described as Ettrick Forest.
		The chief trees were oak, birch and hazel; and the wood being well stocked with the finest breed of red deer in the kingdom became the hunting-ground of the Stuarts.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Selkirkshire (1582 words)

	Scottish Woodlands in a Global Context
		Forests are interconnected webs of life which are much more than trees, much more than the sum of producers, consumers and decomposers, much more than water and carbon and temperature and climatic regulators, much more than home for people and timber stocks for the forest industry.
		Forests are areas of land where the full complexity and range of forest functions are permitted to proceed substantially unhindered by humans.
		Here again the forests of the Borders are among the most severely impoverished but, unlike the boreal forests which are cold and inhospitable, temperate forests occupy some of the richest and most fertile areas on earth and have therefore been among the most exploited regions.
	www.carrifran.org.uk /WIGHTMAN.HTM (2059 words)

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		Climate and Agriculture.—The rainfall for the year, based on observations at Bowhill, between the confluence of the Yarrow and Ettrick, at a height of 537 ft. above the sea, averages 33.65 in.
		No so-called British camps have been found on the upper and middle waters of the Ettrick and Yarrow, and of the few situated in the lower valleys of these streams the most important is the large work on Rink Hill in the parish of Galashiels, the district containing various interesting prehistoric remains.
		To the north of Hangingshaw in the country between the Yarrow and Tweed he constructed an earthwork, still called Wallace's Trench, loon ft. long and deep enough to conceal a moss horse and his rider, and paved in part with flat whinstones laid on edge.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=60311&locale=en (1573 words)

	Untitled Document
		In the past Selkirk was a shoemaking town and capital of Ettrick Forest, a royal hunting ground.
		Ettrick Bridge is the home of the former Liberal leader and the speaker of the Scottish Parliament, David Steel.
		Ettrick bridge was the birthplace of author James Hogg, perhaps not so well known as his friend Walter Scott, his best known work is Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
	nt4845.vs.netbenefit.co.uk /route_main.asp?ID=128 (596 words)

	The Author
		James Hogg, called the Ettrick Shepherd, novelist and poet, was born in Ettrick Forest, Selkirkshire in 1770.
		Ettrick Forest was one of the ancient Scottish royal hunting grounds, but by Hogg's time, the court had long since disappeared to London and Ettrick had become a backward and remote sheep-farming district.
		In 1816 the Countess of Dalkeith bequeathed Hogg a farm Ettrick.
	www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk /sww/samplework/AnnaMaija/html/author/author.htm (1255 words)

	Peebles and Selkirk - Natural History
		The trees that grew in the Ettrick Forest were the birch, the Scots fir, the oak, the mountain ash, the alder, the ash, the elm, the hazel.
		Of the wagtail family, the grey, the yellow, and the tree pippit are known, the third being numerous in the Ettrick, Yarrow, and Peebles hills, the second rare, having been last seen at Tushielaw in 1889.
		Of birds of prey the owl is common in the area, the white or barn owl at Newark, Manor and Stobo, the long-eared owl in Ettrick.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/peebles/chap7.htm (1512 words)

	The Scotsman - Scotland - Turning over a new leaf for royal forest
		He believes the history of the Ettrick Forest has been underplayed, and that its story should be told to visitors to the Borders and south-west Scotland.
		In a number of places in the Ettrick and Yarrow Valleys - the heart of the ancient forest - conifer plantations with their origins in the 1970s are also being redesigned so that hardwood trees provide an acceptable edge to afforested areas.
		Oaks from Ettrick Forest were used by monks to build the great Border abbeys, and the area has inspired generations of writers of ballads and poetry.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=336242003 (659 words)

	Ettrick Forest Tartan
		In early 1298, Wallace was proclaimed Guardian of Scotland at the ‘Forest Kyrk’.
		Selkirk was the capital of Ettrick Forest and the one place of importance in Scots hands at the time.
		At this time Wallace and his band were using Ettrick Forest to harry the English garrisons holding Roxburgh and Jedburgh Castles.
	www.scotlandshop.net /designertartanclothing/ettrickforesttartan.php (71 words)

	The Borders Forest Trust- Rooted in the Community: Ettrick Habitat Restoration
		Borders Forest Trust has been working for over 6 years with Forest Enterprise, 12 local landowners and other members from the local community to restore over 125 hectares of natural woodlands, wetlands, grassland and wildflower meadows in the Ettrick floodplain.
		It is now possible to explore the rich habitat of the Ettrick floodplain by foot and venture up to the highest vantage point where the whole of the Ettrick floodplain can be viewed.
		The Ettrick Marshes project is now entering it's second phase, where lots of maintenance and joint working with the local community will be required to ensure the establishment of newly planted woodlands.
	www.bordersforesttrust.org /projects/ettrickhabitat.htm (414 words)

	Clann Arthur : Oor Arthur : Arthur's Battles : The Forest of Caledon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nineteenth century Scottish historian W.F. Skene located the conflict in the Forest of Tweeddale around the upper reaches of the great river where the border lands of the Selgovae tribe (and the later notorious Border Rievers) begin to merge with Clydesdale and Annandale not far from Arthur’s Seat and Merlin’s Cave on Hart Fell.
		Others have suggested the Ettrick Forest set deeper south towards Hadrian’s Wall, but I would equate Caledon with Caledonia and the great forest of the same name lying to the north of the Forth/Clyde isthmus.
		The problem is that the majority of Northern Britain was still deeply forested during the Dark Ages and the exact location of this encounter shall be a matter of debate for a long, long time.
	www.clanarthur.co.uk /allpages/oorarthur/battles/forestofcaledon.htm (437 words)

	Selkirk - Scottish Borders: Hotels, B&B, Accommodation, Self Catering Holiday Cottages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Selkirk was the location and ancient seat in the Ettrick Forest for Scottish Kings and was given Royal status in the twelfth century.
		A town on the edge of the Ettrick Forest, which once had its own castle and, for a short period in the twelfth century, an Abbey, although this was later moved to Kelso.
		The twin valleys of Ettrick and Yarrow provide some of the most stunning landscapes in the Scottish Borders; St Mary’s Loch, the largest stretch of water in Southern Scotland, is only 18 miles away from the town.
	www.visitsouthernscotland.com /area/town_detail.asp?TownID=109§ionid= (250 words)

	Historical perspective for Ettrick Forest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		All the country drained by the Ettrick and the Yarrow, with part of that drained by other affluents of the Tweed, as also the country now forming the upper ward of Clydesdale, was clothed with wood once, a remnant of the ancient Caledonian Forest.
		The forest, judging from the prevalence of a Saxon nomenclature throughout the district, appears to have been early settled by the Northumbrian Saxons.
		On the 4th of Aug. in that year Ettrick Forest was, by Act of parliament, annexed to the Crown.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/features/featurehistory9960.html (617 words)

	Amazon.com: "Ettrick Forest": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His professional visits to Roxburghshire and Ettrick Forest were,...
		Lieutenant of the county, Francis Lord Napier, that regulations required the Sheriff to reside four months of the year in Ettrick Forest.
		Ettrick Forest, as every one knows, was the favourite hunting-ground of our former kings and queens at a time when,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Ettrick-Forest (597 words)

	ETTRICK
		Ettrick Forest, a mountainous area of Scotland, and is indicative of the scenic beauty which typifies the area.
		Ettrick is active in maintaining quality utilities, services, and recreational facilities.
		State Highway 53 links Ettrick to a myriad of the amenities available in La Crosse, Eau Claire, and Winona - all within a short driving distance from the village.
	www.trempealeaucountytours.com /ettrick.htm (253 words)

	BBC - Where I Live - Borders - Outside Now
		Stone cairns arranged in the shape of an Iron Age house depict the area's history whilst there are excellent views of the Tweed Valley from this vantage point.
		This forest park near Peebles and on the River Tweed offers both parking and picnic facilities.
		Two of the signposted forest walks provide views of the remains of the fort dating back to the Iron Age and Cardrona Tower, once the seat of the Govan family in the 16th Century.
	www.bbc.co.uk /scotland/whereilive/borders/outside/walk_archive.shtml (515 words)

	Tourist Information for Ettrick :: Yes Scotland Gazetteer :: YesScotland.com
		Ettrick was a name also given to Ettrick forest which used to cover most of the Selkirk countyside in past years.
		Ettrick also used to be a remote community enclosed by hills southwest of Selkirk.
		Scottish Kings used Ettrick as a hunting ground, and the poet James Hogg ('Ettrick Shepherd') was born and is buried in Ettrick.
	www.yesscotland.com /region763cos.php (109 words)

	Ettrick Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		In 1235 a large area of Ettrick Forest was granted to the monks of Melrose Abbey by Alexander II.
		The most significant part of Ettrick itself is bypassed even by the quiet and lonely B7009 as it makes its way through beautiful countryside from Selkirk south to Eskdalemuir.
		The focus of community life in Ettrick today remains the kirk, which lies at the western end of the remaining parts of the settlement.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /ettrick/ettrick (529 words)

	William Wallace - The Borders Connection in the Wars to retain Independence
		Guerilla warfare was conducted by Wallace and his followers from the comparative safety of Ettrick Forest and other wild places.
		In historical fairness, one or two historians reckon that the Forest Kirk could have been at St Mary’s of the Lowes, the foundations of which can be seen near St Mary’s Loch in the Yarrow Valley.
		In July 1297, Edward’s Treasurer in Scotland records that Wallace was in Ettrick Forest with ‘a graunt compaigne’.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/borders/william_wallace.htm (725 words)

	Ettrick : Southern Upland Way : Town Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 'Heart of the Forest' - the head of the Yarrow and Ettrick Valleys and the surrounding 'mountains' - is unique.
		Once part of the great Ettrick Forest, this last stronghold kept its wilderness status and trees long after the rest of the Forest had been 'tamed'.
		Despite this gradual disappearance of wooded land, the spirit of 'The Forest' lives on in the imagination of the people, and has inspired great oral traditions and ballads as well as poetry and prose.
	www.southernuplandway.com /area/town_detail.asp?TownID=249§ionid= (235 words)

	THE SOUTHERN TOUR
		GALESVILLE was called a “Garden of Eden” by early settlers because of the surrounding lush forests, fertile prairie and clean spring water.
		The village of ETTRICK was named by the early Scots settlers of this area for the Ettrick Forest, located in the rugged wooded uplands of northern Scotland.
		The Ettrick and Northern Railroad rail spur built in 1915, ran 10 miles north to Blair but never prospered and was abandoned in 1938.
	trempealeaucountytours.com /southern_tour.htm (911 words)

	Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 eBook
		The editor is unable to ascertain the historical foundation of the tale; nor is it probable that any light can be thrown upon the subject, without an accurate examination of the family charter chest.
		It is also certain, that, by a charter from James IV., dated November 30, 1509, John Murray of Philiphaugh is vested with the dignity of heritable sheriff of Ettrick Forest, an office held by his descendants till the final abolition of such jurisdictions by 28th George II.
		In order to accomplish this object, it was natural for him, according to the policy of his predecessors to invest one great family with the power of keeping order among the rest.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/12742/105.html (399 words)

	The Borders Forest Trust, Ettrick Valley and Yarrow Valley, Scottish Borders UK
		In 1995, WWF Scotland commissioned a review to determine the status of flood-plain forests within Scotland; this identified the haughland of the Upper Ettrick as one of the best-developed areas of flood-plain habitat and as an area that offered great potential for restoration and expansion.
		The River Ettrick is active in relation to a shifting and dynamic watercourse with gravel bar formation, ox bow siltation and bank undercutting.
		The restoration of the Ettrick Marshes flood-plain possesses the potential to rank as one of the best examples of forest floodplain in Scotland and so attract interested parties.
	www.ettrickyarrow.bordernet.co.uk /organisations/flood-plains.html (861 words)

	Border Clan Scott - History and Genealogy
		He was warded in Edinburgh in 1524 on account of a dispute with the Queen-Dowager of James IV, regarding her dower lands in Ettrick forest, but he escaped the same year and associated himself with the party of the Earls of Angus and Lennox.
		With these lairds were all the herdsmen of the Forest of Ettrick, with all Teviotdale on horseback and foot, 400 tried men from the west part of the Merse, and all the inhabitants of the Forest of Jedworth, and all the best tried men of Morrhowsland and Lawtherdale under the Lord Buccleuch.
		Certain rents in Ettrick Forest, payable to the Countess of Bothwell, having been conferred on Kerr of Fernihirst, the latter is found pursuing James Scott of Newark, Chamberlain-depute of the Forest, for said rents, which Scott haen paying into the Countess's hands since the forfeiture.
	www.james.com /border_scott (14591 words)

	Glasgow University Archive Services - Collections - Summary Catalogue - Records of Ettrick Forest Savings Bank, Ettrick ...
		The first Ettrick Forest Savings Bank was established in 1815 and approved under the Savings Bank (Scotland) Act of 1819.
		In 1838 the Bank was certified under the Savings Bank Act of 1835 as the National Security Savings Bank of Ettrick Forest and certified again in 1864 under the Trustee Savings Bank Act of the previous year.
		The Ettrick Forest records were centralised at the Hanover Street Branch in Edinburgh.
	www.archives.gla.ac.uk /collects/catalog/tsb/001-050/tsb028.html (594 words)

	James Hogg Summary
		During the 1820s and 1830s James Hogg, or "The Ettrick Shepherd," as he was called from his frequent signature of his magazine articles, was almost as well known a Scottish author as Sir Walter Scott.
		For the last twenty years of his life, James Hogg, "The Ettrick Shepherd," was perhaps as well known in his native Scotland as any of his contemporaries, save only Sir Walter Scott.
		Biography Hogg was born on a farm near Ettrick Forest in Selkirkshire and baptized there on December 9.
	www.bookrags.com /James_Hogg (289 words)

	Ettrick Local Info on Undiscovered Scotland
		There's been a church at Ettrick for at least 800 years.
		By the late 1600s the village, then called Ettrick Kirkton, had some 50 houses, though the population declined rapidly from 1700, when many tenants were cleared by the Laird, James Anderson of Tushilaw.
		Today's Ettrick is little more than a scattering of houses, plus church, hall and primary school, all enjoying a truly magnificent but extremely remote setting.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /ettrick/ettrick/info.html (169 words)

	Ettrick - Scottish Borders: Hotels, B&B, Accommodation, Self Catering Holiday Cottages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The 'Heart of the Forest' was, and still is, a beautiful place that the world seems to have passed by but in fact the area is steeped in history, myth and legend.
		Its contribution to the cultural and literary life of Scotland enormous: Merlin, Arthur, Wallace, Bruce, the Black Douglases, plundering Reivers and fleeing Covenanters - all knew its hills, rivers and valleys.
		Monks cut down its oaks to build their abbeys and yet other trees were felled for fuel and to clear land for grazing.
	www.visitsouthernscotland.com /area/town_detail.asp?TownID=259 (219 words)

	Flowers of the Forest
		The ballad along with that which applies to the modern air, commemorates the Battle of Flodden Field, which was fought on the 9th September 1513.
		The Flowers O' the Forest refers to the Scots who came from Ettrick Forest.
		The lyric which is applied to this melody was written by Miss Jane (or Jean) Elliot and was published around 1755.
	www.msgr.ca /msgr-humour/celtic-scots_flowers_of_the_forest.htm (370 words)

	Ettrick Forest Tartan - Tartans, Clans and Scottish Gifts - Scots Connection. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ettrick Forest Tartan - Tartans, Clans and Scottish Gifts - Scots Connection.
		Swatches of the Ettrick Forest tartan can be ordered on this page.
		A selection of products available in the Ettrick Forest modern tartan (plaid) are listed below.
	www.scotsconnection.com /uploads/html/Ettrick_Forest_Tartan_435_1.htm (79 words)

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