Roxburgh
Roxburgh is a civil parish and formerly a royal burgh, in the historic county of Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was an important trading burgh in High Medieval to early modern Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Steve Kent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wallace’s Tower and Roxburgh Viaduct.
Wallace’s Tower
Archaeological site
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wallace's Tower is a ruined 16th-century L-plan tower house, about 3 miles south west Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland, in Roxburgh, west of the River Teviot.
Springwood House
Archaeological site
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Springwood House is an archaeological site, which is situated 2 miles northeast of Roxburgh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kalemouth and Kelso.
Kalemouth
Locality
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kalemouth is a place in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, where the Kale Water joins the River Teviot, near to Eckford, Cessford, Crailing, Kelso, and Roxburgh. Kalemouth is situated 2 miles south of Roxburgh.
Kelso
Photo: Meho29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kelso is a small market town in the Borders region of southern Scotland, with a population of 6900 in 2020. Its name probably derives from Calk Heugh - the "chalk outcrop" which its two rivers cut through.
Eckford
Village
Photo: james denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eckford is a small village located between the larger towns of Kelso and Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. The village is in close proximity to both the River Teviot and its tributary the Kale Water, and the A698 and the B6401 which run approximately parallel to the respective rivers. Eckford is situated 3 miles south of Roxburgh.
Roxburgh
- Type: Village with 419 residents
- Description: former county town of Roxburghshire in Scotland; abandoned c.1500
- Categories: former settlement and locality
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.56855° or 55° 34′ 7″ northLongitude
-2.47814° or 2° 28′ 41″ westPopulation
419Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RXGOpen location code
9C7VHG9C+CPOpenStreetMap ID
node 392813381OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Roxburgh” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ռոքսբուրգ”
- Azerbaijani: “Roksburq”
- Basque: “Roxburgh”
- Cebuano: “Roxburgh”
- Chinese: “羅克斯堡”
- Czech: “Roxburgh”
- Dutch: “Roxburgh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “روكسبرج”
- French: “Roxburgh”
- German: “Roxburgh”
- Hebrew: “רוקסבורג‘”
- Irish: “Rosbrog”
- Italian: “Roxburgh”
- Japanese: “ロクスバラ”
- Japanese: “ロックスバラ”
- Korean: “록스버러”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Roxburgh”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roxburgh”
- Norwegian: “Roxburgh”
- Persian: “راکسبرا”
- Persian: “راکسبورگ”
- Russian: “Роксбург”
- Scots: “Rosbroch”
- Scots: “Roxburgh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rosbrog”
- Slovenian: “Roxburgh”
- Spanish: “Roxburgo”
- Swedish: “Roxburgh, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Roxburgh”
- Ukrainian: “Роксбур”
- Ukrainian: “Роксбург”
- Welsh: “Roxburgh”
- “Roxburgh”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Roxburgh Kirk and Roxburgh Train Station.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Roxburgh”. Photo: Steve Kent, CC BY-SA 2.0.