Roxburghshire

There are some counties, particularly in the more remote parts of the Kingdom, which may not strike an immediate chord with most of our readers and indeed Roxburghshire was more populous before the Act of Union in 1707 than afterwards.

But another way of looking at postal history is to choose a single person associated with. Although born in Edinburgh, he is most associated with the mansion of Abbotsford on the banks of the Tweed which he built in the Scottish Baronial style and, when he died in 1832, was buried in Dryburgh Abbey. Although his work was to fall out of favour when romanticism became less popular, his memory lives on in a multiplicity of memorials in Scotland and elsewhere, as well as at Waverley Station in Edinburgh, named after his first novel and opened in 1854.