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Photo of Kelso, a village in the Scottish Borders, southern Scotland.

© Jim Barton / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Kelso

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Kelso spreads around one of the finest town squares in Scotland, a broad cobbled space near where the Tweed and Teviot meet. On the edge of town stands Floors Castle, built in the 1720s to William Adam’s design and still home to the Dukes of Roxburghe; the house and gardens open to visitors in season. The ruins of Kelso Abbey are a short walk from the square.

More places to visit near Kelso

Photo of Kelso Abbey, a ruined abbey in the Scottish Borders, southern Scotland.Highlight

Kelso Abbey

Abbey near Kelso

Fragment of a once-great Border abbey.

0.3 km SE

Photo of Floors Castle Gardens, a garden near Kelso, the Scottish Borders, southern Scotland.Highlight

Floors Castle Gardens

Garden near Kelso

Walled Victorian kitchen garden and riverside parkland around Scotland's largest inhabited castle.

1.8 km NW

Photo of Smailholm Tower, a ruined tower house in the Scottish Borders, southern Scotland.Highlight

Smailholm Tower

Tower house near Smailholm

Lonely Border peel tower on a crag.

8.9 km W

Photo of Mellerstain Gardens, a garden near Gordon, the Scottish Borders, southern Scotland.Highlight

Mellerstain Gardens

Garden near Gordon

Terraced Edwardian gardens by Reginald Blomfield below an Adam-designed mansion.

9.5 km NW

Photo along the Pennine Way, a 268-mile National Trail running from Edale to Kirk Yetholm, England and Scotland.Highlight

Pennine Way

National Trail

The first and toughest of them all — 268 miles along England's rocky spine from the Peak to the Cheviots.

11.5 km SE · spans 8 counties

Photo of the Northumberland National Park, a National Park in Northumberland, north east England.Iconic

Northumberland National Park

National Park near Otterburn

England's emptiest national park — big skies, Hadrian's Wall and gold-tier dark skies.

11.9 km E