Kilbucho

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Kilbucho (Gaelic: Cille Bheagha) is a small settlement in southern Scotland near Biggar and Broughton. It is in Peeblesshire, near the Lanarkshire border.

The name is after an Irish abbess, who also gives her name to St Bees in Cumbria [1].

Kilbucho is "fenced" in by hills on three sides, including some of the highest in southern Scotland east of Galloway. Coulter Fell is near here.

The area is strongly connected with John Buchan, the author of The Thirty Nine Steps and former governor general of Canada. It is thought that the inspiration for his 1927 novel Witch Wood comes from this particular area.

The poet "Kilbucho" also takes his name from this area. Many self-published, he has gained some minor notoriety as a latter day "McGonigal", and has written poems about this area, and also Biggar.