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Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Waterloo Monument near Ancrum in the Scottish Borders is a 150-foot tower, built between 1817 and 1824 to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. It was designed by the architect Archibald Elliot, after the original monument designed by William Burn collapsed.
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Craft workshops and classes, try your hand at a huge variety including glass engraving and pottery painting.
This is a 16th-century tower house. In 1566 Mary, Queen of Scots stayed here, and made a long excursion to visit the wounded Earl of Bothwell out at Hermitage Castle. On return she was taken seriously ill, the cause isn't known, but she eventually recovered and returned to Edinburgh. There are "Mary QoS slept here" sites all over Scotland, but that was normal for a peripatetic medieval ruler, especially one with multiple enemies that she needed to stay ahead of.
A charming 16th-century bridge over Jed Water mid-town. It's now just a footpath, but it was the main road into town until about 1800.
This ruined but imposing Augustinian abbey was founded in 1138 and was a frequent target for invading English armies. It continued in use as a parish church at the Reformation in 1560, saving it from wreckage, and it served until 1871 when a new town church was built. There is a cloister and herb garden, and a visitor centre with 8th-century carvings and artefacts excavated from the abbey grounds. In 2022 the abbey interior is closed for building safety, but you can see plenty from the street.
south across the main road from the abbey was the replacement of 1875. This was the mainstream Church of Scotland, but there were great schisms and sects and separate churches in that era; they made up and re-united in 2007.