The Southern Uplands in the south Scotland are a mountainous region bordering England. They border on the south english Counties Cumbria and Northumberland and to the Solvay Firth. In the north lies the Central lowland belt. In the west and south the Southern Uplands meet the Irish Sea and the Solvay Firth and in the northeast the North Sea. The region is strongly agricultural and benefits from the milder weather in the south of Scotland and the fertile soils. Those bordering on England Borders were long contested in the Middle Ages.
Regions
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- Ayrshire - on the coast of the Irish Sea with legendary golf courses
- Borders - Hill country on the border with England with castles, farms and lots of Scottish history
- Dumfries and Galloway - the south-west of Scotland with high mountains and shaggy cattle
- the island Arran - The island is a Scotland in miniature, highland wilderness, castles, glens
- Clydesdale - (Lanarkshire), industrial landscape on the upper reaches of the Clyde
places
- 1 Ayr (45,000 inhabitants)
- 2 Brodick (600 inhabitants) - capital of the island of Arran with the Brodick Castle of the same name
- 3 Dumfries (33,000 inhabitants)
- 4 Galashiels (15,000 inhabitants)
- 5 Hawick (14,000 inhabitants)
- 6 Irvine (34,000 inhabitants)
- 7 Jedburgh (4,000 inhabitants) small town steeped in history with the ruins of Jedburgh Abbey
- 8 Kilmarnock (47,000 inhabitants)
- 9 Peebles (9,000 inhabitants)
- 10 Stranraer (10,000 inhabitants), ferry port to Northern Ireland
Other goals
- 11 New Lanark Factory site and workers' settlement of a philanthropic textile entrepreneur from the end of the 18th century, to a certain extent an early stage of light, air and sun, today a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- 12 Gretna Green, the small town on the Solvay Firth and southernmost town in Scotland was notorious for the fact that underage couples from England fled here to get married under Scottish law (which did not require parental consent). According to legend, the marriage ceremony often took place at the village blacksmith's. To this day, several thousand marriages are concluded here every year.
- Landscapes around Yarrow and Ettrick Water
background
language
getting there
The airport Glasgow Prestwick Airport
(IATA: PIK) is in the northeast of the region, but has few connections. Edinburgh Airport(IATA: EDI) and Glasgow Airport(IATA: GLA) are just north outside, depending on the destination, one to three hours away by car.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
In the fertile and contested region, monasteries were founded for settlement in the Middle Ages, which could afford magnificent abbey churches. Destruction by acts of war or the iconoclasts also left behind splendid ruins, such as the abbey churches 1 Crossraguel Abbey in Ayrshire, 2 Dryborough Abbey, 3 Dundrennan Abbey in Kirkcudbright, Jedburgh Abbey, Melrose Abbey, Kelso Abbey in the places of the same name or 4 Sweetheart Abbey at Dumfries.
In the contested regions (not only, but increasingly) near the border stood numerous castles, today mostly ruins. examples are 5 Bothwell Castle, 6 Caerlaverock Castle, 7 Hermitage Castle, 8 Hume Castle or the 9 Smailholm Tower.
But there are also opulent castles like 10 Culzean Castle, 11 Mellerstain House or 12 Floors Castle.
Another attraction is 13 Abbotsford House, Home of the poet Sir Walter Scott on the Tweed and the Eildon Hills nearby.
activities
The Southern Upland Way was opened in 1984 and is a hiking trail of approx. 340 km coast-to-coast of Portpatrick on the west coast Cockburn spath on the east coast of Scotland. About 2/3 of the way it is on par with that European long-distance footpath E2.
