LINKS: Below are just a few of the many websites (links) dedicated to the history of Scotland with a focus on the Borders. There are also a few links more aimed at tourists travelling to our old stomping grounds in the Borders.
Tourist related websites from the Ashkirk area:
- Dimpleknowe: http://www.dimpleknowe.co.uk/
- Synton Mains: http://www.syntonmains.com/
- Woll Golf Course and cottages: http://www.wollgolf.com/
- Bowhill Estate: http://www.bowhill.org/
- Tibbie Shiels Inn: http://tibbieshiels.com/
- Traquair House: http://www.traquair.co.uk/
- Abbotsford House: http://www.scottsabbotsford.co.uk/
Websites with history specific to the Borders:
- Electric Scotland offers search capability (enter any of the place names I've mentioned on my website or other related titles like the Clans, Borders, Rievers, Buccleugh, etc.): http://www.electricscotland.com/index.html
- Border Clan Scott History and Genealogy: http://www.james.com/border_scott/index.htm
- Borders Family History Society (searchable): http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/Index.asp
- GenUKI (Genealogy UK and Ireland, searchable): http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/
- Heritage Hub Archives and History Centre: http://www.heartofhawick.co.uk/heritagehub/
- Graham Maxwell Ancestry (free census searches): http://www.maxwellancestry.com/census/default.htm
- "The Early Records of Ashkirk Parish" as recorded in the Transactions of the Hawick Archelogical Society's September meeting, 1863: http://books.google.ca/books?id=88wGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA93&dq=ashkirk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hUzVULWeE-70igLc44G4Bw&ved=0CFQQ6AEwBjge#v=onepage&q=ashkirk&f=false
- Bowhill Estate: http://www.bowhill.org/
- YouTube video "Scotalnd's Clans - Scott" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJGfj4ZggtA&feature=youtube_gdata_player