Edinburgh Airport 1 hr 20
Mellerstain House (31 min) Leaderfoot Viaduct (18 min) William Wallace Statue, Bemersyde (20 min) Roxburgh Castle (20 min) Castle, ruins, and history Fatlips Castle (18 min) Castle, architecture, and history Jedburgh Castle Jail & Museum (13 min) Museum in castle jail built in 1823, housing displays on 19th-century prison life and local history. Waterloo Monument (17 min) Melrose Abbey (21 min) Medieval ruins of Cistercian monastery with museum and burial place of Robert the Bruce's heart. Smailholm Tower (25 min) 4-story 1400s stone tower in a hilltop location, with a ruined outer hall & kitchen foundations. Kelso Abbey (19 min) Ruins, abbey, and history Monteviot Gardens (10 min) Harestanes Countryside Visitor Centre (9 min) Borders Textile Towerhouse (20 min) Museum and art Mellerstain House & Gardens (30 min) Grand 18th-century home with Robert Adam interiors, Italianate terracing, parkland and a lake. Abbotsford The Home Of Sir Walter Scott (22 min) Sir Walter Scott's 1800s baronial mansion, with his study & landscaped gardens. |