On the green at Denholm, a planned village on the Teviot between Hawick and Jedburgh, stands Leyden’s Monument of 1861. It was put up for John Leyden, the poet, doctor and scholar of Eastern languages born here in 1775, who helped Walter Scott with his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. James Murray, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879, was born in the village too. Look out for the Text House of about 1910, inscribed with Scots mottoes such as “Tak tent in time ere time be tint”, meaning “take heed in time before time is lost”. Rubers Law and the Minto Hills are on either side, with the restored tower of Fatlips Castle on Minto Crags.
