Skills Area
Skills Area is in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Skills Area is situated nearby to Wild Watch, as well as near 7 stanes Glentress.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Horsburgh Castle and Castle Hill.
Horsburgh Castle
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Horsburgh Castle, also known as Horsbrugh Castle or Horsbrugh Tower, is a ruined tower house castle by the River Tweed, on the A72 road from Peebles to Galashiels, near Glentress in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Horsburgh Castle is situated 1,300 feet south of Skills Area.
Kailzie Gardens
Garden
Photo: Kay Atherton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kailzie Gardens is a walled garden near Kirkburn in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the Tweed valley, 2.5 miles east of Peebles, off the B7062. Kailzie Gardens is situated 3,900 feet southwest of Skills Area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cardrona and Peebles.
Cardrona
Village
Photo: Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cardrona is a village on the A72 and B7062, between Peebles and Innerleithen, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Places nearby include Glentress, Kirkburn, Scottish Borders, Kirkhouse, Traquair, and Walkerburn.
Peebles
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Peebles is a town in the Scottish Borders, with a population in 2020 of 9000. The name is Brythonic: pebyll meant "tents" or a temporary dwelling place.
Innerleithen
Town
Photo: Dauntless111, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Innerleithen is a market town and civil parish in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scottish Borders. It was formerly in the historic county of Peeblesshire or Tweeddale. Innerleithen is situated 3½ miles southeast of Skills Area.
Skills Area
- Type: Pedestrian zone
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.6442° or 55° 38′ 39″ northLongitude
-3.13532° or 3° 8′ 7″ westOpen location code
9C7RJVV7+MVOpenStreetMap ID
way 1547566453OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrian
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