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The village seen across Teviotdale from Minto. Denholm is expanding with a new housing estate being completed in 2008.
©Richard Webb
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.3km<br/>These stone pylons are the remains of what looks to have been a suspension footbridge over the River Teviot.
©Walter Baxter
Dist:0.3km<br/>Houses alongside the green, Denholm.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>Post bus outside the post office and bakery, Denholm. Now that the GPO has gone corporate, these services are disappearing - as are the post offices themselves.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>The thatched cottage in the photo was the birthplace in 1775 of Dr John Leyden, son of a shepherd. At the age of 15, John Leyden enrolled at Edinburgh University, eventually qualifying both as a doctor and as a minister. He was an associate of Sir Walter Scott and a poet in his own right, and became an expert in oriental languages before his early death, at the age of 36, in Java.
©Eileen Henderson
Dist:0.3km<br/>For a full view of the monument, see [[[763708]]].
©Walter Baxter
Dist:0.3km<br/>Set within the railings of the Leyden Monument [[[763708]]] on Denholm village green, and the likely spot where the old Mercat Cross used to stand.
©Walter Baxter
Dist:0.3km<br/>Carved figures on the Gothic spire of the monument [[[763708]]] at The Green, Denholm.
©Walter Baxter
Dist:0.3km<br/>This 1861 monument designed by Hector H Orrock and sculpted by Handyside Ritchie, takes the form of a Gothic stone spire set on red granite columns, and stands in the middle of the village green. It was erected by public subscription to the memory of John Leyden, a poet and oriental scholar who was born in Denholm in 1775. Restoration and repair of the monument was carried out in 1982.
©Walter Baxter
Dist:0.3km<br/>Denholm, a planned village laid out in the 17th century, is nowadays a Conservation Area. The monument on the Green commemorates Dr John Leyden, a poet and linguist who was born in the village in 1775.
©Eileen Henderson
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©Kirsty Smith
Dist:0.3km<br/>At the southwest end of the village and still open for now. Many of the small rural post offices are under threat of closure.
©Walter Baxter
Dist:0.3km<br/>Denholm on an October morning. The spire is the Leyden Monument - see [[763708]].
©Jim Barton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is a view across The Green with the Leyden Monument on the left and the remains of a Guy Fawkes bonfire from the previous night in the foreground.
©Walter Baxter

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