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The Reiver Families of the Borders
Explore the lands of the great Border Reiver families, c.1500-1700, behind LJ’s Reivers novels – click on the numbered places on the map to get started
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Outlaw: Liddesdale
Outlaw is set in Liddesdale, a remote Scottish valley that was Armstrong country, watched over by the brooding fortress of Hermitage Castle. The story centres on Blackhope, Sim Armstrong’s tower, where Ringan grows up.
- Blackhope – Sim Armstrong’s tower, the heart of the story.
- North Tynedale – the Charlton bastle where the story begins.
- The Debatable Land and the Bewcastle Waste – the wild no-man’s-land where Ringan is on the run, and where he meets Elspeth.
Bound by Blood: Carlisle
Bound by Blood moves to Carlisle and the English West March. Ringan is now a Warden’s rider based at Carlisle Castle, the great border fortress that guarded the western frontier.
- Carlisle Castle – the Warden’s stronghold and the heart of the story.
- The Mote of Liddel and the Bewcastle Waste – ruined strongholds and empty bastles where Ringan and Elspeth meet in secret.
- Annandale – where the story turns north to the field of Dryfe Sands.
Lance and Sword: North Tynedale
Lance and Sword is set in the English Middle March, in the valleys of North Tynedale and Redesdale. Here Ringan lives among his Charlton kin, serves Robert Carey and shares a hidden bastle with Elspeth.
- North Tynedale and Redesdale – Charlton country, a land of bastles and hidden hollows.
- Jedburgh and Tarras Moss – the Scottish town and the wild marshland that draw the story back across the border.
- Blackhope and Workington harbour – where the journey comes full circle.
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