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The beautiful remains of Dryburgh Abbey, one of the four great abbeys of the Scottish Borders. It is surrounded on three sides by a loop in the River Tweed, giving the ruins a wonderful sense of seclusion and calm. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stboswells/dryburghabbey/index.html

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Walter Scott's View, Dryburgh, Berwickshire, 1939 - Judges RP Postcard

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Back in time - September 2020.

Dryburgh Abbey Hotel is nearby Dryburgh Farmhouse, and is within walking distance for an evening drink. Nearby Melrose, a stately market town, has a wider range of shops, pubs and restaurants, and provides access to the walks up the Eildon Hills. Scott’s View, a lookout beloved by the novelist, is also close by, as are the picturesque Leaderfoot Viaduct, what remains of Trimontium – once the largest Roman fort north of Hadrian’s Wall – and Abbotsford, Scott’s suitably-exuberant home.

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Back in time - September 2020.

Dryburgh Farmhouse is a pretty red-sandstone property and large, lawned south-facing garden, this old farmhouse includes two spacious lounges, each well stocked with deep sofas and warmed by log-burners when necessary, alongside a devoted dining room of tweed-patterned oak chairs. There’s also an open-plan area combining a second dining table with the sleek kitchen’s black-granite work surfaces and range cooker. Contemporary and country styles mingle here, as bleached wood finishes accentuate a richly-coloured landscape painting of, appropriately, a cottage by a river.

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Back in time - September 2020.

About a minute’s wander away from Dryburgh Farmhouse is the Greek-style Temple of the Muses built to honour Scottish Borders poet and playwright, James Thomson, who penned Rule, Britannia!’s lyrics; the bust atop the temple portrays Thomson, and a sculpture references his Four Seasons series. The ruins of Dryburgh, one of the four great Borders abbeys and Sir Walter Scott’s monumental resting place, lie just uphill, as does the colossal Wallace Monument statue. A cute, pedestrian-only suspension bridge crosses the Tweed – built in 1872 as a replacement for Britain’s first ever chain bridge; look upstream for herons – towards the village of St. Boswells and its award-winning Mainstreet Trading Company’s bookshop-cum-cafe.

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Back in time - September 2020.

We stayed at Dryburgh Farmhouse sits beside the meandering River Tweed and is found at the end of a no-through road, Dryburgh Farmhouse enjoys a wonderful location with the ruined Dryburgh Abbey is within a few minutes’ walk.

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Holidaying at Dryburgh near St Boswells. A short wander from the holiday rental down to the river Tweed and the bridge over it. I really enjoyed the engineering behind the bridge, so a few more shots of it.

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Holidaying at Dryburgh near St Boswells. A short wander from the holiday rental down to the river Tweed for a stroll and take in the glorious countryside.
The weather was gloriously warm all week with T-shirts still being worn most days.

Back in time - September 2020.

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Back in time - September 2020.

The River Tweed near Dryburgh. Dryburgh is a small village in the Scottish Borders, and the River Tweed flows nearby.

The beautiful remains of Dryburgh Abbey, one of the four great abbeys of the Scottish Borders. It is surrounded on three sides by a loop in the River Tweed, giving the ruins a wonderful sense of seclusion and calm. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stboswells/dryburghabbey/index.html

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The historic chain bridge over the River Tweed at Dryburgh

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Dryburgh Suspension Bridge is a pedestrian chain bridge in Dryburgh over the River Tweed. The current bridge was built in 1872 and replaces an earlier chain bridge which was the first chain bridge in Scotland when built in 1872. The bridge footpath forms part of the Borders Abbeys Way and also is an additional, optional route on St Cuthbert's Way to visit Dryburgh Abbey.

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Dryburgh was the first town to erect a monument in honour of William Wallace, in 1814. It is said that Sir Walter Scott did not like the structure. The current statue is in the grounds of Bemersyde House.

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Dryburgh is a village in the Borders region of Scotland, within the county of Berwickshire. It is most famous for the ruined Dryburgh Abbey.

The Temple of the Muses
a circular nine columned gazebo stands since 1817 on Bass Hill, overlooking the River Tweed at the west end of the village. It is dedicated to the poet James Thomson, the Ednam poet and author of "The Seasons" and the lyrics of Rule Britannia.

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Haig's grave. No mention of his military titles, or the Earldom. Just a regulation WWI ordinary stone.

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The very red tomb slab of John Haliburton, Baron of Mertoun. Died 1640. Dryburgh Abbey.

Homo est bulla rebus in humanis nil fas dixisse beatum fatalem donec verterrit hora rotam / Human life is as a vapour, and a man may not be pronounced happy until time has turned the fatal wheel.

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Roof boss in the North transept, main surviving part of the church at Dryburgh Abbey.

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