Historic Environment Scotland

Smailholm Church

Historic Kelso church set to become a four-bedroom home

The statue of Sir Walter Scott in Selkirk’s Market Place has been described as rather “tatty”.

Walter Scott monument could be ‘returned to its former glory’

Planners say the application is not a justifiable extension to the Duns boundary.

Plan to extend Duns boundary with ten new homes refused

Ross Buchan, John Collins and Ryan Cass cut the ribbon.

Iconic football club stand reopens in Galashiels

The two skeletons found in the grounds of Jedburgh Abbey last year.

New light shone on Jedburgh skeletons

The bridge remains in the riverbed, comprising cutwater masonry and oak ‘branders’ which provided a platform for the pier.

Exciting discovery at Ancrum

Human remains, potentially dating back 200 years, have been uncovered during major repair and refurbishment works by Scottish Borders Council on the ramparts wall adjacent to Jedburgh Abbey.

Human skeletons found during repairs to ramparts at Jedburgh Abbey

Steve Anderson at the Queen's Head in Hawick High Street.

Hawick pub almost restored to its former glory

Can you help identify where this image was taken? It’s one of 5000 mysteries Historic Environment Scotland is hoping our readers will help to solve.

Treasure trove of pictures of Scotland in the 1970s and 80s to explore

Historical re-enactors at the opening of a walk at the Philiphaugh battlefield in 2013.

Selkirk waterworks revamp given go-ahead despite battlefield location

Les Ainslie in the field next to his house.

Opposition mounting to Melrose school’s inflatable pitch bid

Opposition is mounting to a bid by St Mary’s School in Melrose to site a sports pitch covered by an inflated dome in a field on the town’s outskirts.

Kevin Janiak

Heritage fund launch... Jane Ryder, chairwoman of HES, launched the grants scheme at Newhaven Lighthouse. Community groups have until April 30 to express an interest, then submit an application before May 31, for the chance to secure a grant of between £3000 and £20,000.

Chance to celebrate your local waterways

Six buildings first in line for repairs as part of £1.5m Hawick regeneration sch...

Jedburgh town centre before the scaffold appeared.

Demolition of historic Jedburgh building agreed as support to save it mounts

Liberal Club, 80 High Street, Hawick

Borders construction workers invited to get involved in Hawick’s £1.5m regenerat...

Six buildings first in line for repairs as part of £1.5m Hawick regeneration sch...

Councillor Davie Paterson outside the old Glenmac mill in Hawick.

Councillors welcome £1.5m Hawick regeneration initiative

The old Queen's Head pub in Hawick High Street.

Borders council chiefs agree to raise stake in Hawick regeneration scheme to alm...

Sir William Beecheys portrait of Watt can be viewed at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, which is partly named in his honour. (Pic: Information Services, Heriot Watt University)

Celebrating the genius of Scottish inventor James Watt in 2019

The old Liberal club in Hawick is one of the properties expected to benefit from a forthcoming conservation area regeneration scheme.

Council being asked to chip in more cash to Hawick regeneration scheme kitty

The site at the Valley, Selkirk, where the old Baptist Church once stood, is the location for a planning application for eight affordable homes.

Eight flats plan for former Selkirk Baptist church site

Hawick High Street.

Hawick lands £1.3m conservation area scheme payout

How the extension proposed for the old Castle Venlaw Hotel in Peebles would look.

Plans to convert former Peebles hotel into flats given thumbs-up

How a new canopy planned at Ednam House Hotel in Kelso would look.

Kelso hotel hoping to expand appeal as wedding venue

How the Barrel Law wind farm near Ashkirk would look.

Rejected bid for wind farm near Hawick goes to appeal

High Street, Hawick.

£2m revamp on cards for deteriorating town centre

Parched grass shows up the banana-shaped outline of what is probably a souterrain or Iron Age passage near Peebles.

Archaeologists put in the picture about Borders' past by heatwave

New digital archive gives snapshot of Scotland in 1970s

Two extensive surveys of rural Scotland undertaken during the 1970s are now more accessible to the public after a project by Historic Environment Scotland to digitise their archives.

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Kelso Abbey.

Lights to go out at Borders abbeys for Earth Hour

Trimontium Trust chairman John Reid.

Melrose trust hoping to shed new light on old metal

Heritage Awareness Day aims to bring us face to face with our past

Kirsty Paterson finds out more about Scotland's first Heritage Awareness Day '“ ...

The members of Dig TV, winners of last year's Young Heritage Angel Award.

Seeking Scotland's heritage angels

Port House in Jedburgh.

Jedburgh's Port House in line for revamp as part of £1.3m conservation project

The High Street building also home to estate agent Jim Hay's offices.

Hawick '˜historical treasure' to be converted into homes

New bucket list challenge launched

The most popular Scottish attraction was the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh,

Edinburgh Castle at the peak of paid for attractions

Councillor Ron Smith

Jedburgh set for a £1.3m facelift following HES lift

The Stone of Destiny returned to Scotland 20 years ago.

20 facts revealed about the Stone of Destiny

The One Show Children in Need rickshaw challenge team.

Borders abbey to host start of charity rickshaw challenge

Port House in Exchange Street in Jedburgh.

Regeneration bid set to yield £1m boost for Jedburgh town centre

Pictures of Soldiers near the Stobs Internment Camp, Scotland. Study of Germans interned in Scotland during WW1 has found many were afflicted by "barbed wire disease".

Sharing military camp stories