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Audio tour Summary
For nearly 60 years thousands of young men used the facilities at Stobs Camp near Hawick in the Scottish Borders to train for war. Now the bleak, windswept hills lie as silent witnesses to all that passed before them.
Stobs Camp has significant historical importance with its quality of remains, intact training ground, massive archaeological potential and huge educational resource. Due to its extraordinary level of preservation Stobs Camp is an internationally important First World War site relating to Scotland’s preparation for war and the subsequent handling of First World War prisoners, both civilian and military.
Directions to the start of the tour
The nearest postcode is TD9 9UQ but most satellite navigation systems stop you before you have arrived at Stobs. More specifically the entrance into the camp is at grid reference NT 506 100.
Head south out of Hawick on the B6399 towards Newcastleton. About 4 miles from Hawick you will pass a farm with a waterwheel on your left. Stay on the B6399. You will then pass pig huts in a field on your right and then more pig huts on your left.
At the next bend in the road you will see a War Memorial on the right hand side.
Turn right just in front of the War Memorial & head up this single track road.
You will pass another farm on your right and will then drive under a railway viaduct. Further up you will pass a sign for Stobs Station House (on a gate) on your left. Keep on up the hill.
You will then emerge from the tree cover.
Drive over a cattle grid and the car parking area is just on the left. This is marked on the illustration. Park here, but please do not block any roads or tracks.
- 1 Stobs Arrival into Camp
- 2 Stobs Viaduct
- 3 Entrance to the Camp
- 4 Procession to cemetery
- 5 Cemetery
- 6 Stobs, Quartermaster
- 7 Drying Hut
- 8 WW1 store
- 9 Officers Quarters
- 10 A view of the camp
- 11 Stobs, Fortifications
- 12 The road into camp
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Audio tour Summary
For nearly 60 years thousands of young men used the facilities at Stobs Camp near Hawick in the Scottish Borders to train for war. Now the bleak, windswept hills lie as silent witnesses to all that passed before them.
Stobs Camp has significant historical importance with its quality of remains, intact training ground, massive archaeological potential and huge educational resource. Due to its extraordinary level of preservation Stobs Camp is an internationally important First World War site relating to Scotland’s preparation for war and the subsequent handling of First World War prisoners, both civilian and military.
Directions to the start of the tour
The nearest postcode is TD9 9UQ but most satellite navigation systems stop you before you have arrived at Stobs. More specifically the entrance into the camp is at grid reference NT 506 100.
Head south out of Hawick on the B6399 towards Newcastleton. About 4 miles from Hawick you will pass a farm with a waterwheel on your left. Stay on the B6399. You will then pass pig huts in a field on your right and then more pig huts on your left.
At the next bend in the road you will see a War Memorial on the right hand side.
Turn right just in front of the War Memorial & head up this single track road.
You will pass another farm on your right and will then drive under a railway viaduct. Further up you will pass a sign for Stobs Station House (on a gate) on your left. Keep on up the hill.
You will then emerge from the tree cover.
Drive over a cattle grid and the car parking area is just on the left. This is marked on the illustration. Park here, but please do not block any roads or tracks.
Reviews
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04-14-2021
Great resource and what an amazing place. We live fairly near but had not appreciated how special the place is. The tour, once we had fathomed how to download it ( maybe just us!) really helped. The viaduct is also an amazing structure. Such a shame that no right of way or walking route leads up to it.
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01-21-2021
A great virtual tour and a brilliant web site. My father was stationed there for training with the Highland Light Infantry in 1945 until he went to Palestine. I have visited the camp before but must go again, now that I can identify what is there.
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04-25-2020
An excellent virtual tour, thanks to Rob Brydon's visit for the TV prog. on the Waverley Line. I'll do it for real when the Covid-19 restrictions permit, together with a walk on the John Buchan Trail from Peebles to Broughton. Last year I visited the area of Thomas Telford's childhood in Eskdale and Meggatt Water, the Iron-Age/Roman fort at Burnswark. and the resting-place of Robert Burns. The Borders are a historical gem and you've done a great job on the history of Stobs camp.
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10-12-2018
A great wee App which really enhances an interesting place to visit - taking away the need to guess what things might've been. Very informative.
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08-24-2018
At the beginning of the First World War my grandfather Wilhelm was 25 years old and he came home at the age of 30. Terrifying how much lifetime the war robbed. During the war, he got chronic rheumatism, so that he could no longer work from 1930 on. He also lost two of his three brothers during the war. He arrived at Stobs on 11 August 1916 following hospitalisation for a bullet wound to his arm. He was later transfered to various places on his way back to Germany.
