Stirches

Stirches

Stirches is an area of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, mostly consisting of ex-council housing built in 1973 [cite web|url=http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/book.pdf|title=A Hawick Word Book, by Douglas Scott] . It is often considered to be one of the more desirable housing schemes in the town.

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