Jedburgh – Inside the Abbey and Lunch on the High Street
A day.
The route
Jedburgh Abbey is one of the four great abbeys founded in the Borders in the 1100s, and its tall roofless church still rises over the middle of the town.
A visit goes from the treasures in its visitor centre to the nave and the great rose window at its west end. Lunch is a short walk away on the High Street.
Before you go
Book accommodation nearby
If you are staying over: here are ours nearest where the day starts and ends.
The nearest of ours is The House in the Hill, 5 miles away. Sleeps 4; next free Thu 29 Oct to Sat 31 Oct.
Book tickets for Jedburgh Abbey
Book Jedburgh Abbey tickets online with Historic Environment Scotland: they cost less than at the door.
The day
Jedburgh
A carved shrine fragment older than the abbey, the ruins of the canons' cloister and their great church, then lunch in the town.
Jedburgh Abbey
An attraction
King David founded a priory here in 1138, and by 1154 it was an abbey of Augustinian canons; in 1285 Alexander III married Yolande de Dreux in its church. The visit starts in the visitor centre, where upstairs are a carved piece of a shrine from the 700s and an ivory comb, found near where the chapter house was later built. A walkway leads on through what is left of the canons' buildings and the cloister, now a garden, into the church, the work of the best part of a hundred years. An audio guide is available.
About 4 min on foot
Simply Scottish
Lunch
Simply Scottish, on the High Street, is a licensed café with a menu for the whole family. Everything is made when it is ordered and served all day, from snacks to full meals, with vegetarian and vegan dishes among them and home baking to finish. The kitchen does its best for special diets.
If it rains
The visitor centre and lunch are under a roof; the abbey church is open to the sky.
Simply Scottish, a restaurant in Jedburgh.
Photograph by Simply Scottish via Google