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Home / Regional / Europe / United Kingdom / England / Cumbria / Society and Culture / Border Reivers
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- Armstrong Clan Society - A society dedicated to friendship and unity among Armstrongs and associated families, to provide for the preservation of Armstrong artifacts unique to the family, to maintain a library, and to serve as a genealogical and historical record.
www.armstrong.org
- Border Heritage - A production company dedicated to making films about the Border Reiver families, based in Dumfriesshire. There are currently 6 titles available, with another 6 coming out very soon. CDs also available.
www.border-heritage.co.uk
- Border Reivers - A personal site by Stuart Bird on the Border Reivers, the subject of his University History dissertation.
www.borderreivers.org.uk
- Border Reivers - A comprehensive essay on the history of the Border Reivers, by Linda Caron, part of her site on Scottish history.
www.nwlink.com/~scotlass/border.htm
- Clan Graham Association - The feared Clan Graham of Scotland, keeping their history alive from Central Scotland to the Border Reivers.
www.clan-graham-association.org.uk
- History and Heritage Videos from Striding Edge - Heritage and historical videos with subjects including the Border Reivers, Hadrian's Wall, and the Scottish Borderlands. From Striding Edge, who are based in Cumbria.
www.stridingedge.com/history
- Northumberland and the Border Wars with Scotland - Comprehensive guide to the Reivers, their names, castles, battlefields and the Reiver related tourist attractions along the Northumberland / Scotland border. From Northumberland County Council.
www.northumberland.gov.uk/vg/reivers.html
- Reiver Country, a Present Day Tour - Photographic tour of the border reivers homelands, Lanercost, Bewcastle, Hermitage, Stapleton, Newcastleton and more. Maps links and Routledge genealogy, From Sean J. Ruttledge.
www.geocities.com/MadisonAvenue/3333/apresent.htm
- Reivers Cycle Route - Holiday Lakeland offer an extensive number of fully supported cycle rides, with bed and breakfast accommodation in hotels and good quality guest houses. One of the rides is the Reivers Route, 187 miles largely on minor roads and purpose built tracks, visiting many sites with Reiver connections.
www.holiday-lakeland.co.uk/reivers
- The Border Reivers - People from the borders of England and Scotland who carried out raids in which their victims lost their cattle, and sometimes their lives. Information from the Tullie House Museum in Carlisle.
www.reivers.com
- The Border Reivers of Scotland and England - A personal site by John Rutledge, giving some history on the Reivers, and listing all 77 Reiver family names.
www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/USRutledge/JOHNJEN/reivers.htm
- The Clan Johnstone Heritage Page - A personal site by Jeffrey Johnstone dedicated to the Johnstones from South-West Scotland.
home.eznet.net/~jeff/clan.html
- The Society of Border Reivers - The history, heritage, and culture of the border reivers of the Anglo-Scottish Border are explored by this society of historians.
hometown.aol.com/lariatlil/Page1.html
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