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Scott’s View is on the B6356 north of the village of St. Boswell’s, near Dryburgh, and is so named as it was where Sir Walter Scott often came to reflect and admire the scenery. Tradition has it that when Scott’s funeral cortege was making its way to his burial place in Dryburgh Abbey, his horses …

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Sir Walter Scott was the most widely read writer of his day. He wrote an astonishing twenty-seven novels in fifteen years and all but invented the historical fiction genre. He introduced a slew of words and phrases to the English language, including ‘caught red-handed’, ‘cold shoulder’, and ‘jiggery-pokery’. He found the lost crown jewels of …

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