Selkirkshire or the County of Selkirk ( gd, Siorrachd Shalcraig) is a
historic county and
registration county
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of
Scotland
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. It borders
Peeblesshire
Peeblesshire ( gd, Siorrachd nam Pùballan), the County of Peebles or Tweeddale is a historic county of Scotland. Its county town is Peebles, and it borders Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lan ...
to the west,
Midlothian
Midlothian (; gd, Meadhan Lodainn) is a historic county, registration county, lieutenancy area and one of 32 council areas of Scotland used for local government. Midlothian lies in the east-central Lowlands, bordering the City of Edinburgh, ...
to the north,
Roxburghshire
Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh ( gd, Siorrachd Rosbroig) is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the north-west, and Berw ...
to the east, and
Dumfriesshire
Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries (''Siorrachd Dhùn Phris'' in Gaelic) is a historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the historic county.
I ...
to the south. It derives its name from its
county town
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, the
royal burgh
A royal burgh () was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter. Although abolished by law in 1975, the term is still used by many former royal burghs.
Most royal burghs were either created by ...
of
Selkirk. The county was historically also known as Ettrick Forest.
Unlike many historic counties, Selkirkshire does not have its own
lieutenancy area
Lieutenancy areas are the separate areas of the United Kingdom appointed a lord-lieutenant – a representative of the British monarch. In many cases they have similar demarcation and naming to, but are not necessarily coterminate with, the co ...
, but forms part of the
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale (''Rosbrog, Eadaraig agus Srath Labhdair'' in Scottish Gaelic) is a lieutenancy area of Scotland. The lieutenancy area was created on 1 April 1996, when local government was reorganised across Scotland under the L ...
lieutenancy area.
History
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In the 1st Century
AD Selkirk formed part of the lands of the native people who hunted it rather than settled there. Neither the
Romans
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,
Angles
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, or the
Saxons
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*
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
cleared much of the forestry there and for centuries Selkirk was known for its forest coverage. Indeed, an alternative name for the county was
Ettrick Forest
Selkirkshire or the County of Selkirk ( gd, Siorrachd Shalcraig) is a historic county and registration county of Scotland. It borders Peeblesshire to the west, Midlothian to the north, Roxburghshire to the east, and Dumfriesshire to the south. ...
. Under the
Scottish kings
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the forest was regarded as Royal. Despite this it was not until the reign of
James V
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that sheriffs were appointed to administer the county on the Crown's behalf. During the military occupation of Scotland by
Edward I of England
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, the forest was granted to the
Earl of Gloucester
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Earls of Gloucester, 1st Creation (1121)
*Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1100â ...
.
![Selkirk - A different view of the Town Square - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Selkirk_-_A_different_view_of_the_Town_Square_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1524806.jpg)
In the
Middle Ages
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the area that would become Selkirkshire formed part of the
province
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of
Tweeddale
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. The origins of the shire are obscure, but sometime around the twelfth century the area of Tweeddale was divided into two
sheriffdom
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s:
Peeblesshire
Peeblesshire ( gd, Siorrachd nam Pùballan), the County of Peebles or Tweeddale is a historic county of Scotland. Its county town is Peebles, and it borders Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lan ...
to the north and Selkirkshire or Ettrick Forest to the south. The first recorded sheriff of Selkirkshire was Andrew de Synton, who was appointed by
William the Lion
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(d. 1214).
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1911 edition, article on Selkirkshire. Synton in the parish of
Ashkirk
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, just east of the village centre, was an enclave of Selkirkshire surrounded by
Roxburghshire
Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh ( gd, Siorrachd Rosbroig) is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the north-west, and Berw ...
.
Later, the
Earl of Pembroke
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assumed the hereditary sheriffdom. Under and after King
Robert the Bruce
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, the
Earls of Douglas
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, and later
Earls of Angus
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Hist ...
administered the county. In 1501 John Murray (d. 1510), laird of Falahill, was made sheriff of Selkirkshire and on 30 Nov. 1509 he obtained a grant of the hereditary sheriffdom of Selkirkshire. His descendant
Sir James Murray was deprived of office in 1681 for being remiss in punishing
conventicle
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s, but at the
Glorious Revolution
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was raised to the
session bench as Lord Philiphaugh and reinstated as sheriff. His son
John Murray (died 1753)
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Early life
Murray was the eldest son, of three sons and five daughters, born to the former Margaret Don and ...
was the hereditary Sheriff of Selkirk from 1708 to 1734, when he was returned unopposed as MP for Selkirkshire, having resigned his hereditary sheriffdom to one of his sons. When in 1747 the
heritable jurisdictions were abolished, Murray of Philiphaugh received £4,000 in compensation. The Sheriff-Deputes, previously appointed by the hereditary sheriffs, were now appointed by the crown and acted in place of the hereditary sheriffs One such sheriff of Selkirkshire was
Sir Walter Scott
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who was appointed Sheriff-Depute in 1799, an office he held until his death in 1832.
![Coat of Arms of Selkirkshire County Council](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Coat_of_Arms_of_Selkirkshire_County_Council.svg)
Selkirkshire County Council was created in 1890 under the
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889
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, which established elected county councils across Scotland. The 1889 Act also instigated a review of boundaries, particularly where
burgh
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s straddled county boundaries. The boundary review for Selkirkshire concluded in 1891 and made a number of mostly minor changes. The most significant change was that the burgh of
Galashiels
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was brought entirely within Selkirkshire, where it had previously been partly in
Roxburghshire
Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh ( gd, Siorrachd Rosbroig) is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the north-west, and Berw ...
. Selkirkshire County Council met at the
County Buildings on Ettrick Terrace in Selkirk, which had been built in 1870 as a
sheriff court and meeting place for the
Commissioners of Supply
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, the main administrative body for the county prior to the creation of the county council. The council's staff were based at the Bank of Scotland Buildings in the Market Place in Selkirk.
The county council was abolished in 1975 under the
Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973
The Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered local government in Scotland on 16 May 1975.
The Act followed and largely implemented the report of the Royal Commission on Local Gove ...
, which reorganised local government in Scotland into upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. Selkirkshire became part of the
Borders
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region and part of the
Ettrick and Lauderdale
Ettrick and Lauderdale (''Eadaraig agus Srath Labhdair'' in Scottish Gaelic) was one of four local government districts in the Borders region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996.
History
The district was created on 16 May 1975 under the Local Govern ...
district.
At the time of the local government reorganisation in 1975, the posts of
lord-lieutenant
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of Selkirkshire and lord-lieutenant of
Roxburghshire
Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh ( gd, Siorrachd Rosbroig) is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the north-west, and Berw ...
were both held by
John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch
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. The new district of Ettrick and Lauderdale and the neighbouring district of
Roxburgh
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became nominally separate
lieutenancy areas, although the Duke of Buccleuch was appointed to both positions, effectively continuing the pre-1975 arrangement. When local government was reorganised again in 1996, the two lieutenancies were formally united into a single lieutenancy area called
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale (''Rosbrog, Eadaraig agus Srath Labhdair'' in Scottish Gaelic) is a lieutenancy area of Scotland. The lieutenancy area was created on 1 April 1996, when local government was reorganised across Scotland under the L ...
.
Folk ballads written of the county commemorate the
Battle of Philiphaugh
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in 1645, the 'Dowie Dens' at
Yarrow
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The ...
and Tibbie Shiels at
St Mary's Loch
St Mary's Loch is the largest natural loch in the Scottish Borders, and is situated on the south side of the A708 road between Selkirk and Moffat, about south of Edinburgh.
Description
It is long and wide, and was created by glacial acti ...
.
Geography
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Selkirkshire is a rural county, with a handful of small settlements set within hill and forest country. It forms part of the
Southern Uplands
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geographical region. The
Ettrick Water
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The water, a tributary of the River Tweed, is known also as the River Ettrick, often locally ...
and
Yarrow Water
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The ...
, both tributaries of the
river Tweed
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, flow through the county. The most prominent loch is
St Mary's Loch
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Description
It is long and wide, and was created by glacial acti ...
(including the Loch of the Lowes), with smaller lochs being found east of this such as
Akermoor Loch,
Shaws Under Loch,
Shaws Upper Loch
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,
Halemoor Loch,
Alemoor Reservoir,
Clearburn Loch,
Kingside Loch
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,
Crooked Loch and
Windylaw Loch. The traditional highest point (county top) of Selkirkshire prior to border changes in the 20th century was
Dun Rig
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, with a height of above sea level.
Ettrick Forest
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royal forest
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in the
Scottish Borders
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area of
Scotland
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. It is a large area of
moorland
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, south of
Peebles
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, that once stretched from
Ayr
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to
Selkirk.
Keepers of the Forest
*
Simon Fraser (1299–1306)
Transport
The
Borders Railway
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connects Galashiels and Tweedbank with
Edinburgh
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. Closed for many years, this line re-opened in 2015.
There are also buses to
Berwick-Upon-Tweed
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and
Carlisle
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operated by
Borders Buses
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History
T ...
.
Civil parishes and population
Selkirkshire was historically divided into civil parishes. There were originally nine parishes; Ashkirk, Bowside, Buccleuch (or Rankilburn), Duchoire, Ettrick, Kirkhope, Lindean, St Mary's (or St Mary of the Lowes) and Selkirk. There have been a number of changes since the medieval period:
* Caddonfoot was created in 1898 from the part of the parish of
Stow of Wedale
Stow of Wedale, or more often Stow, is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland (historically Midlothian), north of Galashiels. In the 2011 Census the population was 718. It is served by Stow railway station.
The name
The name Stow is ...
that lay within Selkirkshire.
* Galashiels was formed by the union of two ancient parishes, Bowside and Lindean.
* The parish of Rankilburn or Buccleuch was suppressed and united to Yarrow c. 1600, then transferred to Ettrick 1650.
* The ancient parishes of Duchoire, St Mary's and Kirkhope were united to form the parish of Yarrow; Kirkhope was then separated from Yarrow in 1852.
Population of the county by Civil Parish, according to the latest census (2011):
[Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved Feb 2016. See "Standard Outputs", Table KS101SC, Area type: Civil Parish 1930][Acreage from Gazetteer of Scotland, publ, by W & AK Johnston, Edinburgh, 1937. Figures for each parish, which are presented alphabetically with other places]
The population of the towns in the county (in 2011):
[Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved Oct 2016. See "Standard Outputs", Table KS101SC, Area type: Settlement]
*Galashiels - 14,994 (of which 12,893 in Selkirkshire)
[Excluding ]Tweedbank
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, which is in the Galashiels Settlement (according to the Census map with Settlement population) but is in the civil parish of Melrose. Census of Scotland 2011, Table KS101SC – Usually Resident Population, publ. by National Records of Scotland, for Tweedbank. Web site www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk - retrieved Oct 2016. See "Standard Outputs", Table KS101SC, Area type: Output Area. (See Tweedbank Wikipedia article).
*Selkirk - 5,784
Historical population of the county as returned by the
census
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was as follows:
*1801: 5,889
*1811: 6,637
*1821: 6,833
*1841: 7,990
*1851: 9,809
*1861: 10,449
*1871: 19,651
*1881: 26,346
*1891: 28,068
*1901: 23,356
*1911: 24,601
*1921: 22,607
*1931: 22,711
*1951: 21,729
*1961: 21,055
[Third Statistical Account of Scotland, volume Peeblesshire & Selkirkshire, publ.1964, by J.P.B. Bulloch and J.M. Urquhart; chapter on Selkirkshire: Population]
*1971: 20,868
*1991: 17,456
[Scotland's Census 1991 - National Records of Scotland - Table KS101SC - Usual resident population (aggregate of the 7 civil parishes)]
*2001: 17,757
[Census of Scotland 2001, Table CAS002 – Population by Age by Sex and Marital Status, publ. by National Records of Scotland. Web site http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ retrieved Feb 2016. See "Standard Outputs", Table CAS002, Area type: Civil Parish 1930; total for all Selkirkshire parishes]
*2011: 18,267
[
]
Settlements
*Boleside
Boleside is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the B7060, south of Galashiels. It is very close to the place where the Ettrick Water joins the River Tweed.
Other places nearby include Abbotsford, Clovenfords, Lindean, Melro ...
* Bowhill
*Broadmeadows
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*Caddonfoot
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The village is at the mouth of the Caddon Water
Other places nearby include Boleside, Broadmeadows, Scott ...
*Clovenfords
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* Ettrick
*Ettrickbridge
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It sits on the B7009 road, which follows the Ettrick Water south-west from Selkirk, along the Ettrick V ...
*Galashiels
Galashiels (; sco, Gallae, gd, An Geal Àth) is a town in the Scottish Borders with a population of around 12,600. Its name is often colloquially shortened to "Gala". The town is a major commercial centre for the Borders region with extensive ...
(partly in Roxburghshire
Roxburghshire or the County of Roxburgh ( gd, Siorrachd Rosbroig) is a historic county and registration county in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It borders Dumfriesshire to the west, Selkirkshire and Midlothian to the north-west, and Berw ...
prior to 1891)
*Philiphaugh
Philiphaugh is a village by the Yarrow Water, on the outskirts of Selkirk, in the Scottish Borders.
Places nearby include Bowhill, Broadmeadows, the Ettrick Water, Ettrickbridge, Lindean, Salenside, Yarrowford and the Yair Forest.
Origina ...
* Roberton
* Selkirk
*Yarrow
''Achillea millefolium'', commonly known as yarrow () or common yarrow, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Other common names include old man's pepper, devil's nettle, sanguinary, milfoil, soldier's woundwort, and thousand seal.
The ...
*Yarrowford
Yarrowford is a village on the A708, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, 4 miles north-west of Selkirk, in the Ettrick Forest.
The Yarrow Water flows through the village and joins the Ettrick Water near Philiphaugh.
Places nearby inclu ...
See also
*James Hogg
James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many ...
*List of places in the Scottish Borders
''Map of places in the Scottish Borders compiled from this list'':See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties.
This list of places in the Scottish Borders includes towns, villages, hamlets, castles, golf courses, historic hous ...
*List of places in Scotland
This list of places in Scotland is a complete collection of lists of places in Scotland.
*List of burghs in Scotland
*List of census localities in Scotland
*List of islands of Scotland
**List of Shetland islands
**List of Orkney islands
**List o ...
*Craik Forest
Craik Forest is a forest near Hawick in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and managed by the Forestry Commission. It is adjoined to the south-west by Eskdalemuir Forest.
See also
*Craik, Scottish Borders
*Ettrick Forest
*Wauchope Forest
*List ...
*Wauchope Forest
Wauchope Forest is a forest on the Rule Water, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, south of Hawick, and including the A6088, the A68 and the B6357, as well as Newcastleton, Bonchester Bridge, Hobkirk, Southdean, Hyndlee, Carter Bar, Abbotru ...
*List of forests in the United Kingdom
This is a list of some of the forests in the United Kingdom. Care should be taken to distinguish extensive wooded areas from royal forests which may never have been particularly wooded within historical times.
England
North
Cheshire
*Delamere For ...
References
Further reading
The archeology and historic buildings of the county were documented in 1957 by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Scotland.
There is also a ''History of Selkirkshire'' by T. Craig Brown, published in 1886.
External links
"Selkirkshire" from ''A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland'' by Samuel Lewis, 1846
(British History Online)
Entries on Selkirkshire from the ''Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland'' by Frances Groome(1882-4) and the ''Gazetteer of the British Isles'' by John Bartholomew (1887)
(Vision of Britain)
EttrickForestArchers.co.uk
RCAHMS record for Ettrick Forest or Selkirkshire
SCRAN: Bowling champions in front of club house at Ettrick Forest Bowling Club, Selkirk
The Borders Forest Trust
Jstor: A newly discovered map of Ettrick Forest by Robert Gordon of Straloch
The Ettrick Forest Tartan
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