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Sandwiched between the Cheviot Hills on the English border and the Pentland and Moorfoot ranges to the south of Edinburgh, is the Borders region ( ). If you've travelled from the south across the bleak moorland of neighbouring Northumberland, you'll be struck by the green lushness of the Tweed valley , the pivotal feature of the region's geography. Yet the Borders also incorporates some of the wildest stretches of the Southern Uplands, with bare, rounded peaks and heathery hills punctuated by valleys. The finest section of the Tweed lies between Melrose and Peebles , where you'll find a string of attractions, from the eccentricities of Sir Walter Scott's mansion at Abbotsford to the intriguing Jacobite past of Traquair House , along with the region's famous ruined abbeys , founded during the reign of King David I (1124-53).
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