Burnfoot, Roxburghshire
Burnfoot | |
Roxburghshire | |
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Wheat field at Burnfoot | |
Location | |
Grid reference: | NT514160 |
Location: | 55°26’10"N, 2°46’8"W |
Data | |
Post town: | Hawick |
Postcode: | TD9 |
Dialling code: | 01450 |
Local Government | |
Council: | Scottish Borders |
Parliamentary constituency: |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk |
Burnfoot is a Roxburghshire hamlet which has been subsumed within Hawick to become in essence a housing estate. Burnoot is to be found just east of the Boonraw Burn.
Two neighbouring villages swallowed within Hawick's townscape are Wilton Dean and Stirches.
Burnfoot was built as a council estate between the 1950s and 1970s and is now mostly owned by the Scottish Borders Housing Association and Waverley Housing, two social landlords: it is the poorest part of Hawick, with relatively high rates of social deprivation and its attendant problems.[1]
Other places nearby include Appletreehall, Burnhead, Burnhead Tower, Kirkton, and Galalaw.
Outside links
("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Burnfoot, Roxburghshire) |
References
- ↑ "Shop staff live in fear of Burnfoot yobs" - Hawick News, 3 September 2010