The White Stone

In all our hundreds of visits to Peebles we had never heard of, still less seen, The White Stone, on Innerleithen Road but we discovered it in passing to follow the Railway Walk.

A large quartz glacial erratic, deposited during the ice age, it has been used as a boundary marker stone,  referred to as early as 1462 as "the Quhyt Stane on the northt half of the gat rekand to the Wenlaw". Now set in its own niche in a stone wall, it is category B listed and Scheduled Ancient Monument no 2788.