Hotels in Selkirk
Selkirk is an attractive town extending from the hilltop location of its Market Place and High Street down steep slopes to the impressive old woollen mills and more modern industrial estates along the valley of the Ettrick Water.
Selkirk has an ancient history. The Romans built a fort a few miles to the south west, but the hilltop focus of today's town probably started life as the site of the church of the local Selgovae tribe after their conversion to Christianity in the 500s.
In 1113, the future King David I used the church as the basis for a Tironensian Abbey he endowed in Selkirk. In 1128 the community moved to Kelso and set up Kelso Abbey instead. Selkirk continued to grow despite this setback, and had a Sheriff by 1258. And in 1301 Selkirk Peel, a royal castle, was erected on the south side of today's town.
By the 1400s this wealthy town was trading via Berwick with Baltic Ports, and had developed a reputation for its shoemaking. But everything changed at the start of the 1500s. James IV's ill-judged invasion of England ended with the slaughter of most of the Scottish nobility and of James himself at the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513. With him died 79 of the 80 men in the Scottish ranks from Selkirk. And to make matters worse the English then sacked the town and burned the wooden bridge over the Ettrick Water.
The heart of Selkirk today remains its market place, part of a medieval street plan that survived the English attack in 1513 even if most of the buildings didn't. Overlooking it from the south east is the courtroom in which Sir Walter Scott acted as Sheriff of Selkirk from 1799 until his death in 1832. This now serves as a museum. In front of it stands the large statue of Sir Walter erected in 1839. Further along the High Street is the Mungo Park Monument, celebrating the African explorer born nearby in 1771.
10 hotels
HOTELS
Location: Selkirk
Distance: 0.89 miles
Rating: 4*
Prices From: £98.00
Location: Galashiels
Distance: 3.68 miles
Rating: 4*
Prices From: £70.00
Location: Galashiels
Distance: 4.98 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £40.00
Location: Galashiels
Distance: 5.17 miles
Rating: 4*
Prices From: £45.00
Location: Melrose
Distance: 5.74 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £130.00
Location: Melrose
Distance: 5.74 miles
Rating: 4*
Prices From: £85.00
Location: Melrose
Distance: 5.75 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £80.00
Location: Hawick
Distance: 8.59 miles
Rating: 3*
Prices From: £95.00
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