Innerleithen
Innerleithen is a Town in the county of Scottish Borders.
Innerleithen postcode: EH44 6HD
There are great places to visit near Innerleithen.
Innerleithen History
There are some historic monuments around Innerleithen:
- Walkerburn, cairn 500m S of summit of Cairn Hill Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2763
- Eshiels, Roman camps 90m SSW of No 4 Eshiels Roman: camp SM3667
- Woolandslee Tower Secular: tower SM3148
- Tor Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM3061
- Purvishill Tower, cultivation terraces, enclosure and tower Secular: tower SM2391
- Lee Tower Secular: pele house, peel tower SM10861
- Secular: garden SM3157
- Shieldgreen Tower Secular: tower SM8674
- Young Bush Wood,enclosure NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM3113
- Cardrona Tower Secular: pele house, peel tower SM2784
- Grieston Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM3169
- Nether Horsburgh,castle Secular: castle SM3118
- Warrior's Rest,standing stone Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM2212
- Wallace's Trench,linear earthwork Prehistoric domestic and defensive: linear earthwork SM2248
- Nether Horsburgh,enclosure 620m SE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM3034
- Cairn Hill, cairn, Walkerburn Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2758
- Old Caberston, scooped settlement 310m E of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: scooped settlement SM3036
- Chester Hill,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2961
- Pirn Wood,fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM1491
- Yarrow Stone,inscribed stone 250m E of Whitefield Crosses and carved stones: inscribed stone SM1727
- Glenbield, fort 800m ENE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM3040
- Cardrona Mains,standing stone 180m W of Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM2761
- Birk's Cairn,cairn,Birkscairn Hill Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2762
- Hillside Knowe,settlement,Glentress Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM2731
- Orchard Rig,settlements,enclosures,cairn and field system Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement; Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain) SM2680
- Green Hill, settlement Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM3131
- Blake Muir,platform settlement Prehistoric domestic and defensive: platform settlement SM2960
- Caerlee Hill, fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2785
- The Common, settlement 400m SE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM2861
- Charge Law Plantation,fort & settlement Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2942
- Glentress,St Leonard's Hospital Secular: hospital, hospice SM3126
- Horsburgh Castle Farm, settlement 930m NNW of, Castle Hill Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM2681
- Prehistoric settlement, 170m SW of West Bold Cottages Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive) SM3026
- Glentress Tower,ENE of Glentress Secular: tower SM3112
- Castle Knowe, fort Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2954
- Glebe Stone,standing stone Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone SM2268
- Horsburgh Castle Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort); Secular: tower SM6284
- The Kirna,settlement 270m NW of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement SM2937
- Upper Newby,fort 910m SSE of Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort) SM2727
History of Innerleithen
In the local legend of the town’s founding “St. Ronan Cleik’t the Deil by the hind leg and banished him”, possibly a metaphor for the monks bringing Christian learning back into these regions.
