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About Sir Walter Scott
Images of things to look for
King's Landing
Sir Walter Scott invited George IV to Edinburgh.
Stepping ashore at Leith
Duddingston Kirk where Sir Walter Scott was ordained an elder in 1806.
Corstorphine Tower
There is a tower dedicated to his memory on Corstorphine Hill
where he would site and look over the landscape of Edinburgh
The Council of Edinburgh also honoured him by naming The Inch district of Edinburgh,
around 30 streets after him and for characters and places from his poems and novels
Kelso Grammar School where Walter Scott went to school when living with his aunt in 1783.
Waverley Lodge Kelso Walter Scott's Aunt Janet's Home
Sir Walter Scott's Mothers Grave
St John's Princes Street Edinburgh
Walter Scott's Grave
Dryburgh Abbey
Scott's View over Eildon Hills
Sir Walter Scott in the Writers' Museum Lawnmarket Edinburgh
Walter Scott's Poem (Marmion)
The Battle of Flodden 1513
From Flodden ridge,
The Scots beheld the English host
Leave Barmoor Wood, their evening post
And headful watched them as they crossed
The Till by Twizell Bridge.
High sight it is, and haughty, while
They dive into the deep defile;
Beneath the cavern’d cliff they fall,
Beneath the castle’s airy wall.
By rock, by oak, by Hawthorn tree,
Troop after troop are disappearing;
Troop after troop their banners rearing
Upon the eastern bank you see.
Still pouring down the rocky glen,
Where flows the sullen Till,
And rising from the dim-wood glen,
Standards on standards, men on men,
In slow procession still,
And sweeping o’er the Gothic arch,
And pressing on in ceaseless march,
To gain the opposing hill.
Sir Walter Scott
1771 - 1832
Sir Walter Scott Portrait Signet Library
Sir Walter Scott Plaque in Grayfriars Kirk
Sir Walter Scott Plaque
Tolbooth Musselburgh
John Gibson Lockhart's House
25 Northumberland Street Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott's Thoughts on the future
John Gibson Lockhart's House
Bellfield Street Portobello
Sir Walter Scott Statue Selkirk
Walter Scott Court Room Selkirk