Newark Castle, Selkirkshire
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Newark Tower is a large, ruined tower house standing in the grounds of Bowhill House, in the valley of the Yarrow Water three miles west of Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. In addition to the keep, se
Newark Tower ruins
Newark castle near Selkirk in the Scottish borders
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel is a narrative poem in six cantos with copious antiquarian notes by Walter Scott. Set in the Scottish Borders in the mid-16th century, it is represented within the work as
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The Harp of the North from The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Scott Monument, Edinburgh
"This is my own, my native land" quoted from The Lay of the Last Minstrel on Walter Scott's stone slab at the Makars' Court outside The Writers' Museum in Edinburgh