Annan ROM 2024, Riders leave at 8am to inspect town boundaries.
Annan Riding of the Marches (ROM):
The term Riding of the Marches has been used to describe the inspection of the boundaries of the town of Annan since it was created a Royal Burgh more than 600 years ago. However Riding was more likely to have originally come from the Scottish verb to ‘rede’, which means to clear or put in order and Marches to have come from the word ‘mearc’ from the Anglo-Saxon meaning boundary. So in olden days when they ‘rede of the mearcs’ they were fixing a boundary around the town. Today, in early July more than one hundred horsemen and horsewomen, led by the Cornet and his Lass Ride the Marches to ensure that the landmarks, cairns and other features have not been removed or tampered with since the previous check.
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