Anglo-Scottish border north of the boundary for oil installations established by the Civil Jurisdiction (Offshore Activities) Order 1987. The border country, historically known as the Scottish Marches, is the area either side of the Anglo-Scottish border including parts of the modern council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders, and parts of the English counties of Cumbria and Northumberland. It is a hilly area, with the Scottish Southern Uplands to the north, and the Cheviot Hills forming the border between the two countries to the south. From the Norman conquest of England until the reign of James VI of Scotland,
Melrose, Scottish Borders Melrose, Scottish Borders Melrose (, "bald moor") is a small town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders, historically in Roxburghshire. It lies within the Eildon committee area of Borders Regional Council. The town's name is recorded in its earliest form as "Mailros", 'the bare peninsula' (Old Welsh or Brythonic), referring to the original site of the monastery, recorded by Bede, in a bend of the river Tweed. The original monastery at Melrose is referred to in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" with the name "Magilros". In the late Middle Ages, when the monastery had been re-founded in its present position, its