The Eildon Hills or Trimontium ( 3 hills ) as they were known to our Roman friends of yesteryear, can provide even your novice hillwalker with a good 4 hrs exercise and entertainment. They are situated a few miles south of Melrose & north of Newtown St Boswells in the Scottish Borders.
This view of the Eildon Hills was taken from Scott's View
The path starts near the southern side of the main square in Melrose. Take the B6359, go under the by-pass bridge and the path is signposted at a small alley that takes you through some houses up some wooden steps and onto an open field and then through a kissing gate. Basically from here just follow the path as it leads to a saddle between Eildon North Hill and Eildon Mid Hill, scale the two hills if have time but Mid Hill, for me, has the better views. The third hill is somewhat smaller but has easy paths from the other two hills. In Spring, this part of the walk is ablaze with the yellow bloom of the gorse, in Autumn the higher reaches have the purple of the heather and golden brown of the bracken.
The path from here can be clearly seen as it rises up heading for the saddle between the North and Mid Eildons. Again, depending on the season of the year you will see a wide range of plant life with their associated butterflies - Small Tortoiseshell, seen here
Large and Small White, Red Admiral, Ringlet and Orange Tip. Numbers vary a great deal from year to year, but there are usually a fair number about. It always amazes that an unimposing caterpillar, can, without the aid of a magician, turn itself from a drab, multi-legged food-consuming tube into a graceful and beautiful multi-coloured flying machine. Nature is the magician. So wonder at its works as you walk along, enjoy
TheTamshee: set off up the Corby Linn en-route to the Three Brethern Cairns which were built in the 1500s by the lairds of Yair, Selkirk and Philiphaugh to mark the boundary of their land. The rewards are fantastic panoramic views across Minch Moor to the South & the distant Eildon Hills to the East. In more recent years the view to the north is dominated by the wind turbines at Longpark Farm
