A selection of walking, cycling & driving excursions from Jedburgh
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Hawick Museum and Scott Gallery - 12miles (19km)
Set in glorious parkland, explore the history of Hawick and its renowned knitwear industry, social and natural history displays and 19th and 20th century Scottish paintings.
Harmony Garden - 13miles (21km)
A delightfully tranquil walled garden comprising lawns, herbaceous and mixed borders, vegetable and fruit areas, and a rich display of spring bulbs. The garden is set around an early 19th-century house (not open to the public), built by Melrose joiner James Waugh, who named the house after the Jamaican pimento plantation where he made his fortune. Harmony Garden has excellent views of Melrose Abbey and the Eildon Hills and is situated near Priorwood Garden.
Mertoun Gardens, Melrose - 13miles (21km)
26 acre garden in outstanding setting overlooking River Tweed. Has a walled kitchen garden. On request gardener will guide you through gardens at an additional cost. (Entrance off B6404, 2 miles northeast of St Boswells) Tel: 01835 823236 Fax: 01835 822474
Priorwood Gardens, Melrose - 13miles (21km)
A specialist garden where most of the plants grown are suitable for drying. The colourful and imaginative selection ensures variety for the dried flower arrangements made on the premises, and provides material for courses held here on the ancient craft of drying flowers. Visitors can enjoy a stroll through the orchard which includes historic varieties of apples which are organically grown. Enjoy the different blossoms in spring, a picnic here in the summer, and catch a glimpse of the impressive ruins of Melrose Abbey which overlooks the garden. Priorwood Garden is a short walk from Harmony Garden. For information on day courses on flower drying throughout the year please contact the property. (Entrance off A6091, in Melrose, adjacent to Abbey. On National Cycle Route 1) Tel: 01896 822493
Melrose Abbey - 13miles (21km)
Melrose Abbey is probably the most famous ruin in Scotland. It was founded by David I around 1136 as a Cistercian abbey, but largely destroyed by Richard II's English army in 1385. The surviving remains of the church are largely of the early 15th century, and are of an elegance unsurpassed in Scotland. The Commendator's House contains a large collection of objects found during excavation.
Set in glorious parkland, explore the history of Hawick and its renowned knitwear industry, social and natural history displays and 19th and 20th century Scottish paintings.
A delightfully tranquil walled garden comprising lawns, herbaceous and mixed borders, vegetable and fruit areas, and a rich display of spring bulbs. The garden is set around an early 19th-century house (not open to the public), built by Melrose joiner James Waugh, who named the house after the Jamaican pimento plantation where he made his fortune. Harmony Garden has excellent views of Melrose Abbey and the Eildon Hills and is situated near Priorwood Garden.
26 acre garden in outstanding setting overlooking River Tweed. Has a walled kitchen garden. On request gardener will guide you through gardens at an additional cost. (Entrance off B6404, 2 miles northeast of St Boswells) Tel: 01835 823236 Fax: 01835 822474
A specialist garden where most of the plants grown are suitable for drying. The colourful and imaginative selection ensures variety for the dried flower arrangements made on the premises, and provides material for courses held here on the ancient craft of drying flowers. Visitors can enjoy a stroll through the orchard which includes historic varieties of apples which are organically grown. Enjoy the different blossoms in spring, a picnic here in the summer, and catch a glimpse of the impressive ruins of Melrose Abbey which overlooks the garden. Priorwood Garden is a short walk from Harmony Garden. For information on day courses on flower drying throughout the year please contact the property. (Entrance off A6091, in Melrose, adjacent to Abbey. On National Cycle Route 1) Tel: 01896 822493
Melrose Abbey is probably the most famous ruin in Scotland. It was founded by David I around 1136 as a Cistercian abbey, but largely destroyed by Richard II's English army in 1385. The surviving remains of the church are largely of the early 15th century, and are of an elegance unsurpassed in Scotland. The Commendator's House contains a large collection of objects found during excavation.