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Hawick

Hawick is a town in the , midway along the historic route from Carlisle to Edinburgh, with a population of 10,630 in 2020. The main reason to come is to explore the hills and forests above the town.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hawick Town Hall and Tower Mill.

Town hall
Photo: Postdlf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipal building in the High Street, Hawick, Scotland. The structure, which served as the meeting place of Hawick Burgh Council, is a Category A listed building.

Arts center
Photo: Mark Hope, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an arts center.

Library
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is housed in the building built in 1904 in Hawick and it was one of the many libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie. The library is a Category B listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burnfoot and Wilton Dean.

Quarter
Photo: Mainlymazza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a housing estate just east of the A7, in the northern part of Hawick, by the Boonraw Burn, in the area of . and were also villages surrounding Hawick.

Quarter
is a village in the area of , on the Cala Burn, and close to the . Along with and , is now often considered to be a suburb of Hawick which is situated very close to the village.

Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the area of , 2 miles north-east of Hawick, in the historic county of Roxburghshire. Nearby are Branxholme, Broadhaugh, , and .

Hawick

Latitude
55.4226° or 55° 25′ 21″ north
Longitude
-2.7867° or 2° 47′ 12″ west
Population
13,700
Elevation
381 feet (116 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HWC
Open location code
9C7VC6F7+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 255260672
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647297
Wiki­data ID
Q407183
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Hawick” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hawick”
  • Arabic: “هاويك”
  • Armenian: “Հավիք”
  • Asturian: “Hawick”
  • Basque: “Hawick”
  • Bengali: “হাভিচ”
  • Bengali: “হ্যাউইক”
  • Catalan: “Hawick”
  • Cebuano: “Hawick”
  • Chinese: “哈威克”
  • Chinese: “哈維克”
  • Chinese: “哈维克”
  • Chinese: “霍伊克”
  • Dutch: “Hawick”
  • French: “Hawick”
  • German: “Hawick”
  • Greek: “Χόικ”
  • Gujarati: “હોવિક”
  • Irish: “Hamhaig”
  • Italian: “Hawick”
  • Japanese: “ハウィック”
  • Japanese: “ホーイック”
  • Japanese: “ホーウィック”
  • Japanese: “ホイック”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾವಿಕ್”
  • Korean: “하윅”
  • Korean: “하익”
  • Latin: “Hawick”
  • Lithuanian: “Hovikas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hawick”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hawick”
  • Norwegian: “Hawick”
  • Persian: “هاویک”
  • Polish: “Hawick”
  • Portuguese: “Hawick”
  • Russian: “Хоик”
  • Scots: “Haaick”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hamhaig”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hawick”
  • Slovenian: “Hawick”
  • Spanish: “Hawick”
  • Swedish: “Hawick”
  • Tamil: “ஹவிக்”
  • Tamil: “ஹாவிக்”
  • Telugu: “హవిక్”
  • Ukrainian: “Хоїк”
  • Urdu: “ہاویک”
  • Welsh: “Hawick”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Hawick”. Photo: Postdlf, CC BY-SA 3.0.