Hyndhope

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Hyndhope
Selkirkshire
Farm track above Old Hyndhope - geograph.org.uk - 505155.jpg
Farm track above Old Hyndhope
Location
Grid reference: NT367211
Location: 55°28’48"N, 3°0’8"W
Data
Postcode: TD7
Local Government
Council: Scottish Borders

Hyndhope is a hamlet on the south bank of the Ettrick Water in Selkirkshire, two and a half miles south-west of Ettrickbridge. It sits on a narrow river-side plain at the foot a clutch of jostling hills of the Ettrick Forest. The Hyndhope Burn joins the Ettrick Water here, its little valley giving the place its name.

A road runs up from the hamlet into the hills, but soon petres out into a set of tracks leading the farms A bridge crosses the river to link the hamlet to the B7009 road, Hyndhope’s only link to the wider world: the B7009 then follows the river down to Selkirk.

Bridge over the Ettrick Water at Hyndhope