Mercat Cross
Mercat Cross is a monument in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Mercat Cross is situated nearby to the memorial Monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk, as well as near Selkirk Post Office.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sir Walter Scottʼs Courtroom and Halliwells House Museum.
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
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 Mercat Cross.
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 Mercat Cross.
Mercat Cross
- Type: Monument
- Categories: building and historic site
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.54703° or 55° 32′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.84188° or 2° 50′ 31″ westOpen location code
9C7VG5W5+R6OpenStreetMap ID
way 1001969264OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=monument
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