Local Walks

Brief descriptions of local walks from the BEST WESTERN Philipburn Country House Hotel

From the featured walks there is a choice of short, medium and long with the level of difficulty ranging from the easy (1) to the strenuous (5).
 

1.  An easy (1) walk of about 5 miles on level ground and country roads which is a good introduction to the area.

Starting from the hotel take the farm roads leading into the hills making for the Philiphaugh  Estate. After a walk through the grounds and past the ‘big house’  cross the main road to  pass a saw-mill on the way beside the fish farm to the Philipburn.    
     TIME:1 ½ - 2 hours
 

2.  An easy (1) walk around the nearby Royal Burgh of Selkirk looking at the museums and places of interest which gives this Medieval town its character. 

From the hotel up into the town centre to look at places such as the Sir Walter Scott  Courthouse, Halliwells House Museum, The Old Churchyard - with its William Wallace and American Connections, a visit to a Victorian daylight photographic studio and a walk round the ‘Ring o the toon’.  This walk is a good way to spend half a day in the town and do a little shopping.
     TIME: 3-4 hours

3.  This longer harder (3/4) walk takes the walker into the hills behind the hotel on a circular route.

Leaving the hotel go down to the riverside walk and follow this until you reach Linglie
Farm where you make your way up the Linglie Glen onto the hills. We cross over a ridge into the valley of the Philipburn from where you make your way downhill on forestry roads through beautiful mature woodlands to the hotel.
     TIME: 5 hours

4.  An all day fairly strenuous (4/5) circular walk over the hills to the Bowhill Estate and back to the hotel through the grounds of that and another small estate.
      
Walk straight into the hills via the Philiphaugh Valley to reach a cross-roads on an ancient roadway on the ridge. From here it is a descent towards the valley of the river
Yarrow at the village of Yarrowford. Over the river and into the extensive grounds of   Bowhill Estate (home of the Duke of Buccleuch) Walking on the estate roads you pause  to look at the imposing ruin of a typical Border Peel tower. On past the house and    another crossing of the river into a smaller estate from where you stroll back to the 
hotel.
     TIME: 5/6 hours