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Dryburgh Abbey, Berwickshire

Dryburgh Abbey Dryburgh Abbey, near Dryburgh in Berwickshire, stands in a loop in the River Tweed opposite St Boswells. The abbey was nominally founded at Martinmas in 1150 for the Premonstratensian canons regular from Alnwick Abbey in Northumberland. The canons along with their first abbot, Roger, arrived on 13 December 1152. The abbey flourished in the fifteenth century until finally destroyed in 1544 during the Rough Wooing. Its revival was snuffed out by the Reformation, when the King granted its lands to the Earl of Mar. (Read more)