Old Photographs Ettrick Scotland

Old photograph of Ettrick, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The area around Ettrick has several literary connections. The poet James Hogg, born 1770, died 1835, known as the Ettrick Shepherd, was born at a farm in Ettrick, by Ettrick Hall, and is buried in Ettrick Kirkyard cemetery. Laverlaw, the fictional estate of Sandy Arbuthnot, Lord Clanroyden, in the works of John Buchan, is set near Ettrick. Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour in Kidnapped hails from the fictitious village of Essendean in Ettrick Forest. It is also mentioned in the traditional Scottish folk song, Ettrick Lady, recorded by The Corries. The Ettrick valley was used as the setting for the story No Advantages, from Alice Munro's short story collection, The View from Castle Rock. Ettrick was also home to one of Scotland's most enduring pastor theologians, Thomas Boston, born 1676, died 1732, minister from 1707. His seminal work, Human Nature in its Fourfold State, was widely read throughout Scotland by people of all classes and is still in print today.


Old photograph the old church at Ettrick, Scottish Borders, Scotland. There has been a church at Ettrick for at least 800 years. The Poet James Hogg is known as the "Ettrick Shepherd" was born at a farm in Ettrick, by Ettrick Hall,and is buried in Ettrick Kirkyard.

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