Hill walk routes to climb in SW Scotland
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Around St Mary's Loch
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Here is a link to the Sir Walter Scott connection with the area to start with. As well as writing novels which are steeped in the history of the Scottish Borders, Walter Scott also collected the folk tales of the area and published this as the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders These popular ballads of the area record it's violent past in the lawless frontier lands between two states who were often at war with each other (Scotland and England) and they are seen vividly through the eyes of those who lived through the events recorded in them. "Kinmont Willie", just as an example, will give you some flavour of the times, the sense of honour among thieves (if you like), the tight family ties and the legendary status of the heroes of the tales. The annual pageants held in many border towns to this day record their fiery and proud past. The presence of all this history is also written in the landscape as we will see.
