|
|
| |
| The Reiver Trail |
The Reiver Trail was produced by Director Fiona Armstrong. It goes between Langholm and Newcastleton.
It starts at the Clan Armstrong Trust Museum at Langholm and moves to the brooding tower of Hollows/Gilnockie at Canonbie; then it travels through the Debateable Lands to the statue of Lang Sandie Armstrong and to Kershopefoot, where the prisoners were exchanged by the river Liddel; it goes on to the Milnholm Cross, the monument erected to mourn a murdered Armstrong laird and continues to the Liddesdale Heritage Centre and mighty Hermitage Castle. It finishes in the kirkyard at Carlenrig, where Johnnie Armstrong was hanged and a border legend was born. |
|
|
| Local landowners, Buccleuch Estates, were the agricultural partners and grant funding came from Dumfries and Galloway Council, Making Tracks, and Hawick Regeneration. The Clan Armstrong Trust and the Liddesdale Heritage Society also put in money – thanks to a very generous bequest from a former member, Elizabeth Stevens. She had loved this part of the world – and she would have been delighted that her name lives on here, on the Reiver Trail interpretation boards. |
|
| The official opening was held at Hermitage Castle with Margaret Eliott as guest of honour and it proved to be a grand affair, with a reiver re-enactment group, including mounted reivers, pageantry, a piper, a buffet ran by the Liddesdale Heritage Society, music and our own Mairi Armstrong to bring the event to a close singing from the battlements. |
|
| |
|
