Talk:Common Riding

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[edit] True?

I have reorganised the page and expanded some of the sections. But I do have one question: I thought the Ridings commemorated Flodden and had nothing to do with the following (copied from the Selkirk section): "Common Riding remembers the young men who rode around their town’s boundaries checking for encroachments by neighboring settlements". I've left it in while I await the answer from someone more knowledgeable than myself. Gwinva 15:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC}

the riding of the marches commermorates the riding of the burgh lands, an important and dangerous job many years ago, the casting of the colours in selkirk's market square commermorates the fallen of flodden. User:retro_junkies 10:38, 15 March 2007