Upper Hindhope

Upper Hindhope
Roxburghshire
Upper Hindhope
Location
Grid reference:	NT760097
Location:	55°22’53"N, 2°22’47"W
Data
Postcode:	TD8
Local Government
Council:	Scottish Borders

Upper Hindhope is a minor hamlet at the top of a dead-end lane in the Cheviots, in Roxburghshire, just a mile and a half from the border with Northumberland, which here lies along the uppermost stretch of the River Coquet and the Roman road known as Dere Street, along which, tickling the county border for a while, run the Pennine Way.

Lower Hindhope is a farmstead just down the lane, to the north-east. The Kale Water runs through, its dale here known as the Hindhope Valley.

This is one of the most isolated of hamlets in the county, with no nearby villages and joined to the rest of the land by a lane with no villages of any size on it: the closest link is by a joining lane near Woden Law which leads westwards eventually to the A-road to Jedburgh.

A path runs up from the village, south-westwards, to the Leithorpe Forest.

To the north is Woden Hill (1,385 feet) on whose summit are the remains of a hill fort, and to the east is Brownhart Law (1,667 feet) on the county border, whose slopes have the remains of a Roman signal station and Roman marching camps by Dere Street.