Roxburgh
Vanished settlement · United Kingdom
- Abandoned
- 1550
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 419
- Coordinates
- 55.567, -2.467
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: It was an important trading burgh in High Medieval to early modern Scotland.
History
Roxburgh is a civil parish and formerly a royal burgh, in the historic county of Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was an important trading burgh in High Medieval to early modern Scotland. In the Middle Ages it had at least as much importance as Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth, or Berwick-upon-Tweed, for a time acting as de facto capital.