Easy walking distance

• St Mary’s Graveyard
• Dryhope Tower
• Cockburn’s Grave & Dun Lynn

A drive away

• Borders Abbeys
• Thirlestane Castle — thirlestanecastle.co.uk
• Historic Scotland — historicenvironment.scot — There are numerous historical buildings and areas to explore and the website is a good place to start. It is the new title for Historic Scotland. Some of the places mentioned are the Castles at Craigmillar, Crichton & Hermitage and the Tower at Smailholm. Then there are the Borders Abbeys at Dryburgh, Jedburgh & Melrose. There are also the ruins of the abbey at Kelso and traces of Tironsian Abbey, Selkirk.