{"id":130,"date":"2007-08-12T20:07:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T10:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=130"},"modified":"2007-08-12T20:07:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T10:07:05","slug":"gretna-green-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/britain-ireland\/gretna-green-scotland","title":{"rendered":"Gretna Green &#8211; Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>DAY 5 &#8211; After Loch Lomond we continued south through Glasgow into the Southern Uplands of Scotland.\u00a0 On the way to the Scottish\/English border, we stopped by a small village called Gretna Green.\u00a0 I had never heard of Gretna Green previously, however the village&#8217;s claim to fame are the blacksmiths&#8217; <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/22174-2\/Scot_0260.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Gretna Green\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"Gretna Green\" \/>shops where many runaway marriages were performed.<\/p>\n<p>In 1753, an Act of Parliament was passed, making the legal age of marriage in England 21 years old.\u00a0 If both parties to a marriage were not at least 21 years old, then they had to get consent to the marriage from\u00a0their parents.\u00a0 As this law did not apply to Scotland, it\u00a0led to many young couples eloping from\u00a0England and making for the first Scottish village they came to \u2014 Gretna Green.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/22176-2\/Scot_0261.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"St Andrews Cross - the flag of Scotland\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"St Andrews Cross - the flag of Scotland\" \/>Gretna&#8217;s two blacksmiths shops became the focal point for the marriage trade and nearby\u00a0inns and smallholding became the backdrops for hundreds of thousands of weddings. 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