Monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk
Monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk is a memorial in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk is situated nearby to the museum Sir Walter Scottʼs Courtroom, as well as near Selkirk Post Office.Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: Grade B listed statue in Selkirk
- Also known as: “monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk” and “Sir Walter Scott Memorial”
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.
Selkirk War Memorial
Memorial
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Selkirk War Memorial is situated 330 feet northwest of Monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk.
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 Monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk.
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 Monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk.
Monument to Sir Walter Scott in the Market Place in Selkirk
- Categories: monument, statue, and historic site
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.54711° or 55° 32′ 50″ northLongitude
-2.84152° or 2° 50′ 30″ westOpen location code
9C7VG5W5+R9OpenStreetMap ID
way 1001969278OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q17846770
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Highlights include Selkirk Post Office and Burnside gallery & frames.
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