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Extract from the Selkirk Travel Guides:
Just south of the River Tweed, some five miles southwest of Melrose, lies the royal burgh of
SELKIRK
. The old town sits high up above Ettrick Water; down in the valley by the riverside, the town's imposing greystone woollen mills are mostly boarded up now, an eerie reminder of a once prosperous era. There's precious little reason to linger in Selkirk itself, though the town sits on the edge of some lovely countryside, and serves as the gateway to the picturesque, sparsely populated valleys of Yarrow Water and Ettrick Water, to the west.
At the centre of Selkirk, at one end of the High Street, you'll find the tiny
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