Old Kirk

Old Kirk is a locality in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Old Kirk is situated nearby to the quarter Bannerfield, as well as near the hamlet South Common.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Halliwells House Museum and Sir Walter Scottʼs Courtroom.

Sir Walter Scottʼs Courtroom

Museum

Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sir Walter Scottʼs Courtroom is a museum.

Monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk

Memorial

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk is a memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Selkirk and Lindean.

Selkirk is a market town in the Scottish Borders, with a population in 2020 of 4540. Its main trade of textiles has gone, and it's becoming a commuter town for Edinburgh, linked by the re-opened railway through nearby Galashiels.

Lindean

Village

Lindean is a village north of Selkirk and the Ettrick Water, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. In 1590 the parishioners of Lindean had permission to rebuild their church on the north side of the Tweed, at the west end of Boleside, nearer to their houses, and a coble boat was to be provided to ferry the dead over the Tweed if required. Lindean is situated 2 miles northeast of Old Kirk.

Boleside

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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. Boleside is situated 3½ miles northeast of Old Kirk.

Old Kirk

Type: Locality
Categories: ruins and historic site
Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.54629° or 55° 32′ 47″ north

Longitude

-2.84133° or 2° 50′ 29″ west

Open location code

9C7VG5W5+GF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 701201354

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=ruins

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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