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For further information on the covenanters see the website ‘jardine’s book of martyrs’ (http://drmarkjardine.wordpress.com).

When to go

Wee Queensberry (Walk 12) looking across Nithsdale to the Galloway Hills

With a maximum altitude of 843m and few fearsome cliffs to fall off, the Southern Uplands can be enjoyed at any time of the year. As on most UK hills, the very best months are usually April to June, when the air is cool and clear, and rainfall is lower than in other seasons.

In high summer, July and August, the hills are slightly busier, although even then they are far from crowded. The grassland is a duller green, and the air is warm and hazy. Long days allow you to imitate, if you wish, the tremendous hill crossings of the Border reivers, and quiet summer evenings can be every bit as lovely as the crispness of spring. Midges do haunt the wooded glens, with Glentrool below the Merrick and Kielder Forest in Northumberland being as afflicted as anywhere in the Scottish Highlands. However, open hill slopes and farmland glens are usually midge free.