Green Rig
Green Rig is a locality in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Green Rig is situated nearby to the locality Swire Rig, as well as near Reedy Edge.Places of Interest
Highlights include Hermitage Castle and Cauldcleuch Head.
Hermitage Castle
Castle
Photo: Kirsty Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hermitage Castle is a semi-ruined castle in the border region of Scotland. It stands in the remote valley of the Hermitage Water, part of Liddesdale in Roxburghshire. Hermitage Castle is situated 2½ miles southeast of Green Rig.
Cauldcleuch Head
Peak
Cauldcleuch Head is a hill in an unnamed range of Roxburghshire hills north of Langholm, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The highest hill in this range, it has an isolation of approximately 26 km. Cauldcleuch Head is situated 1½ miles west of Green Rig.
Maiden Paps
Peak
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Maiden Paps are twin hills near Hawick, in the Scottish Borders of the south east of Scotland, so named because they have the shape of human breasts. Maiden Paps is situated 2 miles northeast of Green Rig.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ninestane Rig and Hermitage.
Ninestane Rig
Locality
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ninestane Rig is a small stone circle in Scotland near the English border. Located in Roxburghshire, near to Hermitage Castle, it was probably made between 2000 BC and 1250 BC, during the Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Ninestane Rig is situated 2½ miles southeast of Green Rig.
Hermitage
Hamlet
Hermitage is a village near Newcastleton, on the B6399, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Hermitage is situated 3 miles southeast of Green Rig.
Saughtree
Hamlet
Saughtree is a hamlet in the Scottish Borders at the junction of the B6357 and an unnamed road from Kielder village in Northumberland, England. It is at the confluence of the Liddel Water and Dawston Burn, in Liddesdale. Saughtree is situated 5 miles east of Green Rig.
Green Rig
- Type: Locality
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.28853° or 55° 17′ 19″ northLongitude
-2.81784° or 2° 49′ 4″ westOpen location code
9C7V75QJ+CVOpenStreetMap ID
node 9285568177OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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