Langholm Common Riding
A day of riding the marches, fair-crying and emblems of thistle and heather in this Dumfriesshire town.
A compact, handsome former wool-mill burgh of stone streets and genuine community life, worth the detour for its townscape and the annual Common Riding spectacle, but quiet outside those moments.
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"A cherished one-day agricultural show in the spa town of Moffat in the Southern Uplands, celebrating hill farming traditions and Dumfries and Galloway livestock with a strong local community spirit."
Moffat Show
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"The Dumfriesshire ploughing match rotates between farms in the Nith valley and the surrounding upland country each autumn, where the deep red sandstone soils and the wide skies of southwest Scotland give the competition its own distinct and unhurried character."
Dumfriesshire Ploughing Match
"A not for profit autumn gathering in a Galloway market town that champions young traditional musicians with concerts, sessions and dancing at a converted bank turned arts centre."
Autumn Trad Festival
"Dumfries's ancient riding of the marches custom sees hundreds of horses gather at dawn to ride the burgh boundaries before the crowning of the Queen of the South and an afternoon parade of floats through the town."
Dumfries Guid Nychburris Day
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"Birthplace of the Scottish Snowdrop Festival, Cambo Estate holds the Plant Heritage national collection of over 200 specialist snowdrop varieties carpeting 70 acres of woodland walks down to the Fife coast."
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"Cornet and mounted supporters ride the marches to drum and fife, commemorating a 1514 skirmish."
Hawick Common Riding
"Hundreds of riders follow the standard bearer round the burgh boundaries in the oldest of the Borders common ridings."
Selkirk Common Riding
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