1st August; Monday

Caught a bus to Kelso and had a lovely walk from Kelso to Jedburgh along the River Teviot.

The perception of the countryside is that it is rolling farmland.  However when walking along the river banks every so often you come across sandstone cliffs on one side and water meadows on the other.  The rivers wind about a lot too.  So it would have been one of these sandstone cliffs where Hutton observed his unconformity – I hope to observe this myself. 

Everyone knows about the Tweed but the Teviot is quite a big river in its own right and runs into the Tweed and the Jed Water is not a fordable stream and runs into one or the other, probably the Teviot..and I was oblivious to both of them.  Perhaps we should have more road signs (?) like the French do, telling you about the countryside while you drive through it.

Window display in a Kelso knicker shop

I’ve seen an otter.  In a gun shop.

This could be France.

The Tweed and Floors Castle

The Kelso Bridge (1800- 1804) is a Rennie bridge and a prototype for Waterloo Bridge (the one that went to America

 

Waterloo Bridge lamps, saved and re-erected here

If you are a salmon fisher, this is the best spot in the world – where the Teviot joins the Tweed

 

A posh bridge over the Teviot

  A redundant railway viaduct

Unusual wayside flowers

That’s all the photos for that day but I’m going to add the walk H & I did on Tuesday evening…

This was from Harestanes, just a few miles north of Jedburgh.  It had rained on and off most of the morning but by late afternoon it was really nice so we decided to climb up to see the Wellington Monument which is visible (when the clouds are high) from Jedburgh. 

 

The Cheviots from the north

Looking towards Jedburgh

The monument was built by the guy who built the local Jail – it was depressing close up – one of those that is better viewed from afar.

 

The Eildon Hills – there was a major Roman fort just to the east of these – I always smugly thought that Hadrian’s Wall was the most northerly Roman occupation and have been surprised as to how much there is north of that.