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...a long distance path in the [[Middle Shires]], picking its way through the shires of [[Dumfriesshire|Dumfries]], [[Peeblesshire|Peebles]], [[Selkirkshire|Sel ...s an optional section down to the town, and from there using the [[Borders Abbeys Way]] to rejoin. ...

The '''Roman Heritage Way''' is a long-distance path in the [[Middle Shires]], winding through parts of [[Northumberland]], [[Cumberland]] and [[Roxbur *[[Borders Abbeys Way]] ...

The [[Sir Walter Scott Way]] runs through the shires along the [[River Tweed|Tweed]] and like the Soutyhern Upland Way it visits The [[Middle Shires]] have many long distance routes through their rough fells, and amongst the ...

...ng David I of Scotland; one amongst a series of abbeys he created in these shires. Towards the middle of the 9th century, when the area around Jedburgh was part of the Anglo-Sax ...

...land, with much of its income coming from its vast estates in the [[Middle Shires|Border country]]. John, Abbot of Kelso from 1160 to 1180, was the first abb After Scotland's royal dynasty began lose power in England’s northern shires during the reign of King King William I of Scotland, David's southern "capi ...

...d [[Counties of the United Kingdom|shire]]; the middlemost of the [[Middle Shires]] it looks both west and east. Historically it was a lawless place between ...Tweed, but the old town was destroyed repeatedly in the border wars of the Middle Ages and after the final fall of [[Berwick upon Tweed|Berwick]] in 1460 it ...

...market town, Peebles played a role in the woollen industry of the [[Middle Shires]] up until the 1960s. ...hurch was founded in 1195. It was destroyed (along with many other Borders abbeys and priories) by the soldiers of Henry VIII. The stones of the ruins were p ...

...: Papal Letters'', 1893, London, i, p. 309.</ref> Slow improvement in the abbeys finances took place over the next forty or so years in a period of relative ...h in on its retreat through Lauderdale the army looted and burned both the abbeys of Melrose and Dryburgh.<ref>Bower, Scotichronicon, vii, pp. 11–13</ref> Me ...

*[[Borders Abbeys Way]] [[Category:Abbeys in the Middle Shires]] ...

...arger part of Scotland with the important ecclesiastic sites of the border shires. King Malcolm IV established his Church and Hospital of the Holy Trinity ha After the destruction of the Border Abbeys during "The Rough Wooing" by the Earl of Hertford's forces of Mary, Queen o ...

In the reign of King Edgar (959-975), Pershore reappears as one of the abbeys to be re-established (or restored) under the programme of Benedictine refor ...ster. This may be Æthelweard, the chronicler and ealdorman of the western shires.<ref name=World11-3>Williams, ''World before Domesday'', pp. 11-3.</ref><re ...

...Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the Early Middle Ages and its history of the consolidation in single rule of disparate natio ...om of Scotland was the result of the union over the centuries in the Early Middle Ages of disparate kingdoms in the north. ...

...onquest of the midlands. In 1209 King John's officials established twelve shires in Leinster and Munster, one of which was Tipperary, covering areas of Engl ...dropped to just 2.<ref>Farmar, Tony, Privileged Lives: A social history of middle-class Ireland 1982–1986 (Dublin, 2012), pp 35–36.</ref> ...

...igious house of Liddel; Canonbie church being sometimes referred to in the Middle Ages as the church of Liddel.<ref>The canonry was founded in the reign of D ...The monastic annals of Teviotdale : or, The history and antiquities of the abbeys of Jedburgh, Kelso, Melros, and Dryburgh|year=1832|publisher=W H Lizars|loc ...

...region", and this may originate in its status as the southern half of the Middle Saxon territory or the southern reach of Mercian territory. ...Surrey did however achieve a significant degree of prosperity in the later Middle Ages through its role in the production of woollen cloth, England's main ex ...