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Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 560711
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/560711
The modern village of Roxburgh, which evidently originated in the late seventeenth century, lies about 3km to the south-west of its deserted medieval predeccessor.
At one time, the village comprised two parts, the Upper and the Lower towns, but now only one concentration of settlement survives. At its centre lies the church, while the majority of the houses lie on either side of a single road, Teviot Road.
Roxburgh's population peaked in 1861, when it reached 1,178, but by 1951 it had fallen to 602. By the 1980s, the village consisted of only twenty-seven houses, twelve of which belonged to Roxburghe estates, and four were local authority council houses.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
