KELSO
, ten miles or so downstream from Melrose, at the confluence of the Tweed and Teviot, grew up in the shadow of its now-ruined Benedictine
abbey
(April-Sept Mon-Sat 9.30am-6pm, Sun 2-6pm; Oct-March Mon-Sat 9.30am-4pm, Sun 2-4pm; free), once the richest and most powerful of the Border abbeys. Unfortunately, the English savaged Kelso three times in the first half of the sixteenth century: the last (and by far the worst) assault was part of the "Rough Wooing... [More]
The Roxburghe was converted by its owners, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, into one of Scotland's finest country house hotels, and have established the Roxburghe Golf Course as the 5th top inland golf course in Scotland. Set amongst mature woodland and rolling parkland on the banks of the River T... [More]