Innerleithen

Innerleithen is a small town set in the rolling landscape of the the Scottish Borders, in the Scottish committee area of Tweeddale, which was formerly the county of Peeblesshire. The town, which featured in the 1824 novel, St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott, is believed to have been founded by a pilgrim monk called St. Ronan in A.D.737. A carved Celtic stone known as the Runic Cross can be seen on the slopes of the Leithen valley, which indicates that a church existed at the site during the Early Middle Ages. However, the area is thought to have been occupied since pre-Roman times and the remains of an Iron-Age hill fort are also visible on Caerlee Hill, as well as on the hill of Windy Knowe.