Scottish Tour
06 Jun 2015
Selkirk
A tour of the beautiful Eskdalemuir Forest, Hermitage Castle, the Reiver Valleys and the Cheviot Hills in the Scottish Borders.
As last year, the tour will be based on the Philipburn Country Hotel, TD7 5LS, outside Selkirk, covering around one hundred miles in a “figure of eight” route with the start and finish at the hotel. The lunch break will be at the Horse & Hounds, Bonchester Bridge, where we meet on 2nd January each year to celebrate New Year. The morning route will be to the north-west out of Selkirk, up the Ettrick Valley to the reputed wettest village in Scotland and home of the first Tibetan Monastery in the UK, then past Hermitage Castle, ancient home of the Elliot Clan, and through the Reiver Valleys to Bonchester Bridge for lunch. The afternoon route will head towards Carter Bar and then along the northern side of the Cheviot Hills, through Morebattle and then back to St Boswells and Selkirk.
The run will be totally non-competitive and easy to follow navigational instructions will be given in a comprehensive Route Book. The entry fee of £25.00 will include tea and coffee at the start and finish, provided by the hotel, with lunch at the Horse & Hounds at £15.00 per person, payable in advance with the Entry Fee. There will be a “Tour Dinner” in the evening at the Philipburn Country Hotel, at £25.00 per person for three courses, payable on the night.
On the following day, the Borders Vintage Car Association hold their annual Motoring Extravaganza at Thirlestane Castle and all on the Tour are welcome to this event.
The Tour is open to all cars made before 1st January 1941 and the route will include some of the best “vintage” driving in the country with open roads, spectacular views of Liddesdale, the Cheviot and Eildon Hills, and with little but courteous traffic. The Tour provides the opportunity to learn more about the Border Reivers where the English regularly plundered the Scots in Tudor times and earlier for their sheep and cattle, and probably their women, only for them to be re-paid by the Reiver Clans or Graynes, including the Elliots, Armstrongs, Scotts, Humes and Moffats, with interest.
Entrants choosing to use the event as the basis of a weekend in the Scottish Borders can stay at the Philipburn County Hotel – a “Best Western” hotel – at a special B&B rate on either Friday, Saturday or both nights. Details of all the hotels and B&B accommodation in the Scottish Borders can be seen on www.bestoftheborders.co.uk.
For entrants coming from England, access to Selkirk is easy up the A7 from the top of the M6 or along the A69 and then the A68 through Carter Bar from the A1 at Newcastle.
For further details please contact Alisdaire Lockhart on 01750 22155 or alex3098@btinternet.com.
Contact Andy Halstead on andy.halstead@vscc.co.uk or 01608 644777 ext 4 if you would like to enter.
As last year, the tour will be based on the Philipburn Country Hotel, TD7 5LS, outside Selkirk, covering around one hundred miles in a “figure of eight” route with the start and finish at the hotel. The lunch break will be at the Horse & Hounds, Bonchester Bridge, where we meet on 2nd January each year to celebrate New Year. The morning route will be to the north-west out of Selkirk, up the Ettrick Valley to the reputed wettest village in Scotland and home of the first Tibetan Monastery in the UK, then past Hermitage Castle, ancient home of the Elliot Clan, and through the Reiver Valleys to Bonchester Bridge for lunch. The afternoon route will head towards Carter Bar and then along the northern side of the Cheviot Hills, through Morebattle and then back to St Boswells and Selkirk.
The run will be totally non-competitive and easy to follow navigational instructions will be given in a comprehensive Route Book. The entry fee of £25.00 will include tea and coffee at the start and finish, provided by the hotel, with lunch at the Horse & Hounds at £15.00 per person, payable in advance with the Entry Fee. There will be a “Tour Dinner” in the evening at the Philipburn Country Hotel, at £25.00 per person for three courses, payable on the night.
On the following day, the Borders Vintage Car Association hold their annual Motoring Extravaganza at Thirlestane Castle and all on the Tour are welcome to this event.
The Tour is open to all cars made before 1st January 1941 and the route will include some of the best “vintage” driving in the country with open roads, spectacular views of Liddesdale, the Cheviot and Eildon Hills, and with little but courteous traffic. The Tour provides the opportunity to learn more about the Border Reivers where the English regularly plundered the Scots in Tudor times and earlier for their sheep and cattle, and probably their women, only for them to be re-paid by the Reiver Clans or Graynes, including the Elliots, Armstrongs, Scotts, Humes and Moffats, with interest.
Entrants choosing to use the event as the basis of a weekend in the Scottish Borders can stay at the Philipburn County Hotel – a “Best Western” hotel – at a special B&B rate on either Friday, Saturday or both nights. Details of all the hotels and B&B accommodation in the Scottish Borders can be seen on www.bestoftheborders.co.uk.
For entrants coming from England, access to Selkirk is easy up the A7 from the top of the M6 or along the A69 and then the A68 through Carter Bar from the A1 at Newcastle.
For further details please contact Alisdaire Lockhart on 01750 22155 or alex3098@btinternet.com.
Contact Andy Halstead on andy.halstead@vscc.co.uk or 01608 644777 ext 4 if you would like to enter.
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