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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Dryburgh Abbey - David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan Earl of Buchan bought the land in 1786. Sir Walter Scott and Douglas Haig are buried in its grounds. Their respective tomb and headstone, along with other memorials, are collectively designated a Category A listed building

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Dryburgh Abbey is now a designated scheduled monument and the surrounding landscape is included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.

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Dryburgh Abbey was burned by English troops in 1322, after which it was restored only to be again burned by Richard II in 1385, but it flourished in the fifteenth century. It was finally destroyed in 1544, briefly to survive until the Scottish Reformation, when it was given to the Earl of Mar by James VI of Scotland.

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Dryburgh Abbey, near Dryburgh on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders, was nominally founded on 10 November (Martinmas) 1150 in an agreement between Hugh de Morville, Constable of Scotland, and the Premonstratensian canons regular from Alnwick Abbey in Northumberland.[1] The arrival of the canons along with their first abbot, Roger, took place on 13 December 1152.

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An Adam and Eve carving on a gravestone, Dryburgh Abbey
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