The Joy
The Joy is a forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. The Joy is situated nearby to the hamlet Graden, as well as near Greenhead.Places of Interest
Highlights include Hoselaw Loch and Din Moss and Yetholm Loch.
Hoselaw Loch and Din Moss
Nature reserve
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hoselaw Loch and Din Moss is a nature reserve near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire. A lack of footpaths and the surrounding land being used by farms makes access tricky.
Yetholm Loch
Photo: Stuart Meek, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yetholm Loch is a loch near Kelso, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire. There was a tower on an island in Yetholm Loch which could be reached via a causeway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirk Yetholm and Kelso.
Kirk Yetholm
Photo: Iain Lees, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirk Yetholm is a village in the Scottish Borders, best known as the northern terminus of the 268-mile Pennine Way. Kirk Yetholm is the east side of this straggly settlement; the larger part west of the river is Town Yetholm.
Kelso
Photo: Meho29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kelso is a small market town in the Borders region of southern Scotland, with a population of 6900 in 2020. Its name probably derives from Calk Heugh - the "chalk outcrop" which its two rivers cut through.
Town Yetholm
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yelthom, Officially Town Yetholm, is a small village in the Scottish Borders in the valley of the Bowmont Water opposite Kirk Yetholm. The town colours are green and yellow.
The Joy
- Type: Forest
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.5778° or 55° 34′ 40″ northLongitude
-2.3359° or 2° 20′ 9″ westOpen location code
9C7VHMH7+4JOpenStreetMap ID
way 146477811OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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