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| • | Kelso is a market town in the Scottish Borders located where the rivers Tweed and Teviot have their confluence. The town has a population of just over 6,000; it is regarded as one of the most charming and quaint towns in the area with its cobbled streets, elegant Georgian buildings and French style cobbled market square. Kelso's other main tourist attractions are the ruined Kelso Abbey and Floors Castle, a William Adam designed house completed in 1726. The bridge at Kelso was designed by John Rennie who later built London Bridge.
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. A small hamlet existed before the completion of the Abbey in 1128 but it was the arrival of the monks which started the settlement to flourish, many of the monks were skilled craftsmen and they helped the local population as the village expanded. 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.
Sir Walter Scott attended Kelso Grammar School in 1783 and he said of the town, "it is the most beautiful if not the most romantic village in Scotland". Another attraction is the Cobby Riverside Walk which goes from the town centre to Floors Castle along the banks of the Tweed passing the point where it is joined by the River Teviot. Kelso has two bridges that span the River Tweed, “Rennie’s Bridge” was completed in 1803 to replace an earlier one washed away in the floods of 1797, it was built by John Rennie of Haddington, who later went on to build Waterloo Bridge in London, his bridge in Kelso is a smaller and earlier version of Waterloo Bridge. The bridge was the cause of local rioting in 1854 when the Kelso population objected to paying tolls even when the cost of construction had been cov
Source: [wikipedia: kelso, scotland]
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