Burnfoot, Roxburghshire

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Burnfoot
Roxburghshire

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

  1. "Shop staff live in fear of Burnfoot yobs" - Hawick News, 3 September 2010