River Sark

It was a significant victory for the Scots, who had not defeated England since the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.

[2] The river has been made famous, partially by the Robert Burns' poem, Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation, which in the first verse it says: The poem's subject was the alleged sale of Scotland in the Anglo-Scottish Treaty of Union.

[4] The most famous town on the Sark is Gretna Green, best known for its wedding industry.

The area around the Sark was notoriously marshy and sandy, as much of the coast of the north west Irish Sea is.

The small section between the lower end of the Sark and the River Esk is known as the "debatable lands", and was formerly a haven for criminals and outlaws who wished to exploit the weakness of the two countries' border defences.