Scottish Borders Countryside with easy Access

Places to visit in the Scottish Borders with some access for wheelchair users.

The following web pages provide information on some good places to visit and enjoy wildlife in the countryside of the Scottish Borders. It is hoped that this will be of some assistance to wheelchair-users and others with limited mobility to plan a visit to the countryside.

For many of the sites there is a contact telephone number of a Manager or Countryside Ranger who could give further details. This list is not comprehensive and is meant as a guideline only. The accessibility of a location in the countryside is liable to change with the weather and to be dependent on the physical ability of the wheelchair user, the assistance they have available and the type of wheelchair.

Scottish Borders Council Countryside Ranger Service wishes to thank the Ability Centre, Galashiels, and the Katharine Elliot Centre(Hawick and Jedburgh groups), and the Borders Disability Forum Walkit Group for their assistance in the updating of this information.

A group from the Ability Centre surveyed a number of the sites mentioned in this guide during the years between 2002 and 2008,

The Katharine Elliot Centre in 2009 and 2010, Disability Forum Walkit paths to Health Group continue to update this information with outdoor visits to countryside locations visited in 2011 and planned throughout 2012

Some of the photographs taken on these visits have been used .

Scottish Borders Council Countryside Ranger Service produced this information.  A free booklet is available listing many of the locations found on this website. It is called Countryside Visits- Places to visit in the Scottish Borders with some access for wheelchair users. It can be viewed online at www.scotborders.gov.uk/walking For a copy

please contact

Scottish Borders Council Countryside Ranger Service Council HQ Newtown St Boswells MELROSE TD6 0SA

Telephone (01835) 826750

E-mail [email protected]