Items in Roxburghshire

Branxholm Tower

“It was from Branxholm, on the Teviot above Hawick, that another Scott of the name – generation after generation were Walters – rode forth to rescue ‘Kinmount Willie’ from prison in Carlisle. The Min [...]

Keywords: colour, castles, towers, water, trees

Places shown: Hawick; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-20

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Kelso: The River Tweed and Abbey Ruins

Kelso is a town in the Borders; the abbey was mostly destroyed at the English Reformation.“Walter Scott as from his childhood, at Sandyknowe and Kelso, familiar with Border scenes, as well steeped in [...]

Keywords: bridges, abbeys, ruins, towers, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-20

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Front Cover, The Scott Country

My copy has a repair to a tear on the dust jacket. The picture on the cover is Branxholm Tower, reproduced slightly better inside the book.

Keywords: colour, book covers

Places shown: Hawick; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-09-10

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Smailholm Tower

According to Discover the Borders, “This is a well preserved and well restored border tower house dating from the 15th century. Situated on Sandyknowe Farm, it is visible for miles around. Formerly th [...]

Keywords: colour, castles, towers, water

Places shown: Sandyknowe; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-20

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Melrose Abbey: Choir and North Transept

“Melrose—“the light of the land, the abode of saints, the grave of monarchs” – is a glorious fragment, more beautiful, perhaps in detail than in general effect, in ornament than in design; and memorab [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, windows, arches, trees, colour

Places shown: Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-20

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Roxburgh Castle

Says Discover the Borders, “The ruins of the famous castle of Roxburgh, favourite of Scottish kings, seated on its massive grassy mound between the Rivers Tweed and Teviot.”

Keywords: castles, towers, ruins, trees, water, colour

Places shown: Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-20

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1054.—Kelso.

“Among the less distinguished classes of monachism [sic, meaning monasticism] that also sprang out of the original Benedictine, may be mentioned that to which Kelso Abbey, in the town of Kelso, Roxbur [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, towers, people

Places shown: Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-16

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1057.—South east View of Melrose Abbey

“Some of the general features of the great abbeys of the Cistercian order, that we have noticed in England, we find repeated in the Scottish houses Melrose and New Abbey. The former, the mother Cister [...]

Keywords: abbeys, curches, ruins, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-06

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1058.—Melrose Abbey

“Francis Drake, writing in 1742, also observes “Mailross, I shall take it upon me to say, has been the most exquisite structure of the kind in either kingdom.” Lastly comes the poet, also pointing out [...]

Keywords: churches, abbeys, ruins, spooky

Places shown: Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-08-27

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1056.—Jedburgh

“The Black Canons were introduced into Scotland about the same time as in England. One of their houses was at Jedburgh, the inmates [sic] of which came from Beauvais in France, early in the twelfth ce [...]

Keywords: abbeys, churches, ruins, christmas

Places shown: Jedburgh; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-09-12

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