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	Kelso - LoveToKnow 1911
		The abbey, the building of which was completed towards the middle of the 13th century, became one of the richest and most powerful establishments in Scotland, claiming precedence over the other monasteries and disputing for a time the supremacy with St Andrews.
		It suffered damage in numerous English forays, was pillaged by the 4th earl of Shrewsbury in 1522, and was reduced to ruins in 1545 by the earl of Hertford (afterwards the Protector Somerset).
		by E. of Kelso is the pretty village of Ednam (Edenham, "The Village on the Eden"), the birthplace of the poet James Thomson, to whose memory an obelisk, 52 ft. high, was erected on Ferney Hill in 1820.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kelso (1114 words)

	Kelso, Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kelso's other main tourist attractions are the ruined Kelso Abbey and Floors Castle, a William Adam designed house completed in 1726.
		The town of Kelso came into being as a direct result of the creation of Kelso Abbey in 1128, the origins of the town's name comes from the fact that the earliest settlement stood on a chalky outcrop and the town was known as Calkou in those early days.
		The abbey controlled much of life in Kelso until the Reformation took place in the sixteenth century, after that the power and wealth of the Abbey declined and the Ker family of Cessford, took over much of the Abbey’s properties around the town and by the 1600s they virtually owned Kelso.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kelso,_Scotland (595 words)

	Kelso Abbey Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Kelso Abbey became the grandest of the Border Abbeys founded during the reign of King David I. But being so close to the troubled border with England it saw many English armies pass by over the centuries.
		Kelso Abbey suffered badly in the wars of independence between Scotland and England at the start of the 1300s, but the damage was later repaired.
		Kelso and the abbey were attacked again in 1523, and there were further attacks by the Duke of Hertford in 1542, 1544 and 1545.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /kelso/kelsoabbey (662 words)

	Kelso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kelso, Scotland, a burgh in the Scottish Borders
		Kelso, New South Wales, a suburb of Bathurst
		Kelso, Tasmania a small village in the north of Tasmania
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kelso (161 words)

	Historical perspective for Kelso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The abbeys of Melrose, Holyrood, St Andrews, and Coldingham were, at the same date as the abbey of Kelso, bestowed on James's illegitimate offspring; and, jointly with it, they brought the royal family an amount of revenue little inferior to that yielded by all the possessions and resources of the Crown.
		In 1560 the remnant of the brotherhood was expelled, and the abbey wrecked, by Reformers.
		In 1487 commissioners met at Kelso to prolong a truce for the conservation of peace along the unsettled Border territory, and to concoct measures preliminary to a treaty of marriage between the eldest son of James III.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/towns/townhistory235.html (4951 words)

	The Union of The Crowns - Kelso Abbey
		Kelso Abbey was founded in 1128 by reformed Benedictines from Tiron in France under the patronage of David I. The Tironensians were French monks who had left the Benedictine order in 1105.
		They were renowned for their craft skills and came to Scotland at the request of David I. The Abbey was to beome one of the largest and second richest of Scotland's religious houses.
		James III was crowned at the abbey in 1460.
	www.unionofthecrowns.com /places/10 (156 words)

	BBC - History - Scottish History
		David’s successor, Malcolm ‘the Maiden’, died at Jedburgh in 1165; and Alexander III was married to his young bride Yolande de Dreux in a lavish ceremony at the abbey.
		Thanks to cross-border warfare, it can seem as though the Border Abbeys were in alternating states of destruction and reconstruction, but to focus on this is to disregard their contribution to education and culture.
		Like Dryburgh, Melrose and Jedburgh, Kelso Abbey suffered severely during the Wars of Independence and was finally destroyed by Henry VIII in 1545.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/scottishhistory/earlychurch/trails_earlychurch_jedburghkelso.shtml (483 words)

	Kelso Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Kelso is said to be the most architecturally attractive of the Border Towns, and it is easy to see why.
		The importance of early Kelso as a centre for commerce is confirmed by the names of the parallel streets running north east from the Square: Woodmarket and Horsemarket.
		Kelso Abbey was largely destroyed by the English in a series of attacks culminating in 1545.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /kelso/kelso/index.html (720 words)

	Kelsos in Scotland
		Kelso is the anglicized form of Chalchou and since the abbey was in the English speaking southeastern part of Scotland, it received that spelling originally, more than 170 years before the family name was completely anglicized.
		Lord Thomas Kelso, twelfth Lord of Kelsoland, was a member of Scottish Parliament during the regency of Mary Guise, mother of Queen Mary, in the mid 1500’s.
		Even though the Kelsos had lost their claim to nobility, they continued to be involved in the military and political life of Scotland and they continued to suffer the consequences.
	joe_kelso.tripod.com /historyofkelso/kelsos_in_scotland.htm (2890 words)

	Kelso Abbey & Mary, Queen of Scots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kelso Abbey in the Borders was once extremely wealthy, owning vast lands, churches, schools, farms and granges in the Cheviot Hills, and it was one of the finest examples of Romanesque architecture.
		It boasted a superb library in medieval times and the Abbot of Kelso was granted the right to wear a mitre (liturgical headdress), which placed him at the top of the hierarchy of abbots in Scotland.
		Before that though, the Abbey was visited by Mary, Queen of Scots during her progress of 1566.
	www.marie-stuart.co.uk /Castles/Kelso.htm (243 words)

	Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy » The History of Kelso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Their survival is probably a result of Kelso not sharing in the great mill boom of the nineteenth century that brought an influx of workers to the other Borders burghs.
		Wester Kelso appears to have declined at the same time as Roxburgh, during the long English occupation of the castle, and was largely destroyed in a late seventeenth-century fire.
		Until the late sixteenth century, life in Kelso was largely under the control of the abbey, which was both a spiritual focus as well as landlord to the townspeople.
	www.lineages.co.uk /2004/06/07/the-history-of-kelso (953 words)

	Kelso - Travelscotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Kelso Abbey was once the largest and richest of the Border abbeys, but suffered the same fate as its counterparts, Jedburgh, Dryburgh and Melrose.
		Kelso was a strategic point in the Border wars between the Scots and the English and the abbey, founded in 1138 by King David, was laid to waste by successive English invasions, most devastatingly in 1545 by the Earl of Hertford.
		Six miles southeast of Kelso on the B6352 are the twin villages of Kirk Yetholm and Town Yetholm, lying within a stone's throw of the English border on the edge of the Cheviot Hills, at the northern end of the Pennine Way which runs up the spine of northern England.
	www.travelscotland.co.uk /guide/Kelso (1475 words)

	Kelso Abbey, Scotland
		Ruins of the west end of the great abbey church built in 1128 by the Tironesian monks from France.
		Kelso is well served by public transport to all Border towns, Edinburgh and Berwick.
		Kelso War Memorial and burial vaults of the Dukes of Roxburghe.
	www.discovertheborders.co.uk /places/9.html (59 words)

	Kelso travel guide - Wikitravel
		Kelso is a small market town in the Borders region of southern Scotland.
		Kelso is probably best accessed by taking the A688 or A689 off the main north-south road in the Borders region, the A68.
		Kelso Abbey [2], maintained by Historic Scotland, admission free - one of the great 'Border Abbeys', Kelso Abbey was built between 1128-1143 and was once one of the wealthiest and grandest monasteries in Scotland.
	wikitravel.org /en/Kelso (181 words)

	Anna Overseas: Kelso Abbey
		I went to Kelso on the strength of a photo I saw on the Historic Britain group on Flickr.
		Kelso is one of the many interesting border towns of Scotland, and I intend to see all of them.
		Kelso Abbey was one of the many religious houses that Henry VIII, in his mad stupidity and lust, had destroyed during his stupid stupid reign.
	www.annaoverseas.com /archives/2005/10/kelso_abbey.htm (714 words)

	Illustrated Guide to Places to Visit - Kelso Abbey
		An abbey was founded by King Alexander I at Selkirk in 1113 but the Tironesian monks moved to Kelso when that abbey was established by King David I
		was crowned in Kelso Abbey in August 10, 1460, after the death of his father King James II at the siege of Roxburgh.
		However, the story of the abbey thereafter is one of constant destruction by English invaders, many of whom passed through the area as the marched north into Scotland.
	www.rampantscotland.com /visit/blvisitkelso.htm (360 words)

	Best Places to Visit in Scotland - The Borders
		Just down the road from Melrose are the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey (in St. Boswells), another of the four great abbeys that were constructed in the 12th century and destroyed by the British during the 16th century.
		Kelso is the village that Sir Walter Scott declared the loveliest in Scotland and it has a different feel than many of the other towns in the Borders.
		Kelso's Abbey was the largest of the four great abbeys in the Borders but little remains of its grandeur.
	www.thereareplaces.com /Guidebook/pdest/uksctbd.htm (925 words)

	Illustrated Guide to Places to Visit - Jedburgh Abbey
		Its position, on the steeply sloping banks of the river, allowed the monks to create the huge cross-shaped plan of nave, presbytery and transepts in a prominent position while the cloister, chapter house, cellars and other accommodation could be built on lower levels - leaving the flowing arches of the nave to dominate the site.
		In the same century as it was completed, the devastation of the "Wars of Independence" swept through the Borders (and beyond) as King Edward I and his successors regarded destroying castles and abbeys alike as ways of demonstrating who was in charge.
		Jedburgh Abbey is now in the care of Historic Scotland who are to be congratulated not only on the preservation work which they have undertaken but also creating an excellent visitor centre in the grounds with displays and information.
	www.rampantscotland.com /visit/blvisitjedburgh.htm (396 words)

	Turret House Holiday Cottage, Kelso - Activities in Kelso, River Tweed & Scottish Borders
		The Turret House is situated in Abbey Court, a quiet and pretty no-through street in the Borders town of Kelso.
		Kelso Abbey is just one of the four magnificent Borders abbeys founded by David I of Scotland, the other three being Jedburgh Abbey, Dryburgh Abbey and Melrose Abbey, where the heart of Robert the Bruce is buried.
		In Kelso you can fish for salmon and sea trout on the famous River Tweed, enjoy a game of golf at Kelso Golf Club or the championship Roxburghe Golf Course and cheer on the winners at Britain's friendliest Kelso Racecourse.
	www.turretkelso.co.uk /localarea.htm (621 words)

	Supernatural Scotland
		Kelso Abbey was built in 1128 by King David I and was later dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and St John.
		The Abbey was attacked many times during it's history due to it's close proximity to the border with England and by the year 1550 the Abbey had been reduced to not much more than rubble.
		Kelso Abbey is in the care of Historic Scotland and is free to view.
	www.scotshistoric.bravehost.com /kelso.htm (126 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Benedictine Abbey of Kilwinning
		Timothy Pont, who had seen the cartulary of the abbey, now lost, and who wrote in 1608, gives 1171 as the date, and Richard de Morville (one of the murderers of St. Thomas of Canterbury) as the founder; but the weight of evidence is in favour of Hugh and the earlier date.
		A community of Tyronensian Benedictines was brought from Kelso; the abbey was soon richly endowed by royal and noble benefactors, possessing granges, large estates, and the tithes of twenty parish churches, and a revenue equivalent to some 20,000 pounds sterling a year.
		The suppression and destruction of the abbey soon followed and its possessions, held for a time by the families of Glencairn and Raith, were erected in 1603 into a temporal lordship in favour of Hugh, Earl of Eglinton, whose successors still own them.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08644b.htm (439 words)

	Kelso Family
		KELSO TIES TO The relationship between the Kelsos and the royalty of Scotland and England can be seen clearly by considering the progeny of three Scottish noblemen who were prominent in the last half of the thirteenth century.
		Richard de Kelso, fifth Lord of Kelsoland, son of Hugo, was one of the members of that Parliament who signed the deed of ratification which spelled out the order of succession to the throne.
		Lord Thomas Kelso's son Archibald joined her army, but it was defeated at the battle of Langsayde in 1568 and Archibald went to prison for a few months.
	members.tripod.com /franklee_1/id6.htm (6940 words)

	Kelso Online - Scottish Borders
		The church was divided into two parts by a screen; in the eastern part were the high altar and monks' choir, whilst the western part served as the parish church for the local people.
		Kelso, like the other Border abbeys, suffered greatly in the wars with England.
		Kelso was repeatedy burned or otherwise injured during the English invasions.
	www.kelso-online.co.uk /Abbey.html (608 words)

	Newburgh Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		The Tironensian abbey was first established as a daughter house of Kelso Abbey and most of it was built during the lifetime of the first abbot, Guido, who died in 1219.
		The abbey is not currently open to the public, but there are plans to open it in future, funded by building on what some regard as Lindores Abbey's most enduring legacy to Scotland and to the world.
		To fund the abbey restoration and a visitor centre, Drew McKenzie Smith has commissioned limited edition bottlings of fine malts under the Lindores Abbey label, the eventual aim being to set up a micro distillery in what can justifiably claim to be the birthplace of scotch whisky.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.com /newburgh/newburghfife (883 words)

	Lindores Abbey
		Lindores Abbey was founded in the late 12th century by David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of King William I. This shows the north wall of the refectory.
		The abbey is much in ruins but the grounds are beautifully kept.
		By the end of the 16th century Lindores Abbey was being used as a source of building materials for houses in Newburgh.
	www.darkisle.com /l/lindores/labbey.html (145 words)

	Kelso self catering accommodation, Scottish Borders
		The Turret House is situated in Abbey Court, a quiet and pretty no-through street.
		To the front, the Turret House overlooks St Andrews Church whilst from the rear upstairs windows you can see the 12th century ruins of Kelso Abbey tucked in behind a magnificent horse chestnut tree.
		Kelso's picturesque cobbled main Square, with its wide variety of shops and eating places, is a very short walk from here.
	www.cottageguide.co.uk /turretkelso (312 words)

	Kelso Tourist Information on AboutBritain.com
		The picturesque town of Kelso, lies in a fine setting at the junction of the Rivers Tweed and Teviot.
		Kelso Abbey was founded in 1128, this was the greatest border abbey; like others it suffered in the border wars but even in its fragmentary state this is a superb piece of architecture.
		Smailholm Tower - 6 miles west of Kelso on the B6937, on an elevated situation on a rocky outcrop.
	www.aboutbritain.com /towns/kelso.asp (514 words)

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