Buckholm Tower was built in 1582 by John Hoppringil and stands above the Gala Water. Legend has it that, Pringle, the Laird of Buckholm was cursed by the wife of a covenanter after he murdered her husband and son then hung their bodies from hooks in the vaulted cellar.
Dobies grave is marked by a pile of stones in a narrow cleft on Ladhope Moor. In 1790 the piper accepted a wager that he could play his pipes from Lauder to Galashiels but collapsed from the effort and died.
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