Theme Week Scottish Borders – Hawick

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Dovemount Place © geograph.org.uk - Walter Baxter/cc-by-sa-2.0

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Hawick is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is 10.0 miles (16.1 km) south-west of Jedburgh and 8.9 miles (14.3 km) south-southeast of Selkirk. It is one of the farthest towns from the sea in Scotland, in the heart of Teviotdale, and the biggest town in the former county of Roxburghshire. Hawick’s architecture is distinctive in that it has many sandstone buildings with slate roofs. The town is at the confluence of the Slitrig Water with the River Teviot. Hawick is known for its yearly Common Riding, for its rugby team Hawick Rugby Football Club and for its knitwear industry.

The west end of the town contains “the Mote”, the remains of a Norman motte-and-bailey. In the centre of the High Street is the Scots baronial style town hall, built in 1886, and the east end has an equestrian statue, known as “the Horse”, erected in 1914. Drumlanrig’s Tower, now a museum, dates largely from the mid-16th century. In 2009 another monument the “Turning of the Bull” (artist, Angela Hunter, Innerleithen, Scotland) was unveiled in Hawick. This monument depicts William Rule turning the wild bull as it was charging King Robert the Bruce, thus saving the king’s life and beginning the Scottish Clan of Turnbull. A poem written by John Leyden commemorates this historical event. “His arms robust the hardy hunter flung around his bending horns, and upward wrung, with writhing force his neck retorted round, and rolled the panting monster to the ground, crushed, with enormous strength, his bony skull; and courtiers hailed the man who turned the bull.”

© geograph.org.uk - Walter Baxter/cc-by-sa-2.0 Hawick Town Hall © geograph.org.uk - Brian Bailey/cc-by-sa-2.0 Ancient Mill at Newmill © geograph.org.uk - james denham/cc-by-sa-2.0 Buildings in Commercial Road © geograph.org.uk - Walter Baxter/cc-by-sa-2.0 Dovemount Place © geograph.org.uk - Walter Baxter/cc-by-sa-2.0 High Street © geograph.org.uk - Richard Webb/cc-by-sa-2.0 Houses at Silverbuthall © geograph.org.uk - Walter Baxter/cc-by-sa-2.0
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Buildings in Commercial Road © geograph.org.uk - Walter Baxter/cc-by-sa-2.0
Companies such as Hawick Cashmere, Hawick Knitwear, Johnstons of Elgin, Lyle & Scott, Peter Scott, Pringle of Scotland, and Scott and Charters, all have had and in many cases still have manufacturing plants in Hawick, producing some of the most luxurious cashmere and merino wool knitwear in the world today. The first knitting machine was brought to Hawick in 1771 by John Hardie, building on an existing carpet manufacturing trade. Originally based on linen, this quickly moved to wool and factories multiplied, driving the growth of the town. Engineering firm Turnbull and Scott previously had their headquarters in an Elizabethan-style listed building on Commercial Road before moving to Burnfoot.

In recent times, the economy of Hawick has weakened markedly, at a rate likely ahead of the overall Scottish Borders economy, particularly through the closure of once significant employers including mills like Peter Scott and Pringle. This has reduced the population of the town, which was 13,730 in 2016, the lowest level since the 1800s. Despite efforts to improve the economic situation, the town continues to struggle with unemployment, a dwindling high street, and antisocial behaviour. Developments such as a new central business hub, Aldi supermarket, and distillery, all set for opening in 2018/19, are expected to bring some benefit to the town. Despite this the long term outlook is one of continued economic and social decline.

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