Bataille de Happrew

La bataille de Happrew est une bataille ayant eu lieu vers le 20 février 1304. Elle opposa l'Angleterre à l'Écosse, dont les guerriers étaient menés par William Wallace, de retour de son exil en France, et par Simon Fraser. Ce fut une victoire totale des Anglais, qui comptaient beaucoup de chevaliers. Wallace et Fraser réussirent cependant à s'enfuir.

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Battle of Happrew

The Battle of Happrew was a skirmish which took place around 20 February 1304, during the First War of Scottish Independence. A chevauchée of English knights, which included Robert de Clifford, William de Latimer, and the later Scottish King, Robert the Bruce had been sent south from Dunfermline under Sir John Segrave to locate and capture the rebels Sir William Wallace and Sir Simon Fraser. Fraser and Wallace escaped.

Lyne Kirk

Lyne Kirk is an ancient and historic kirk or church, of the Church of Scotland. It is situated on top of a mound adjacent to the A72 trunk route 4.5 miles west of Peebles in the ancient county of Peeblesshire, now in the Scottish Borders area, and governed by the Scottish Borders Council.

Lyne, Scottish Borders

Lyne (Scottish Gaelic: An Lainn) is a small village and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of the market town of Peebles; it lies off the A72, in the old county of Peeblesshire and has an area of about 4 square miles (10 km2). The Lyne Water flows through the village on its journey from the Pentland Hills to the River Tweed. Lyne railway station was, along with Stobo railway station, one of the nine intermediate stations of the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway branch line. See also: Lyne Viaduct. Dawyck Botanic Garden and Dawyck House are nearby. By an Act of the Scottish Parliament of 1621, the Parish of Lyne was joined to that Megget, some 14 miles (23 km) to the south without any proper connecting road. This union was dissolved after 270 years in 1891. Etymology of Lyne is derived from Llŷn or Lleyn as in the peninsula in Wales which has its etymology from “laigin” from Ireland which the tribe from SE Ireland in Leinster and means “spear/lance”. The word Llŷn in Cumbric is rendered (Llŷn) leyn as well with the meaning “spear or blade” which in Gaelic is “an Lainn”.

Lyne railway station

Lyne railway station served the village of Lyne, Scottish Borders, Scotland from 1864 to 1950 on the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway.

Tarth Water

The Tarth Water is a river in Peebleshire, in the Scottish Borders. It forms part of the River Tweed system. The river with a total length of 7.1 miles, rises on Mendick Hill, a Marilyn, and flows past the villages of Dolphinton and Blyth Bridge before converging at Drochil Castle with the Lyne Water, a tributary of the Tweed.