Hermitage Castle
If you want to follow in the footsteps of Mary Queen of Scots, you can drive from Jedburgh to Hermitage Castle. It was to Hermitage that Mary was headed when she made her famous 64km (40-mile) ride from Jedburgh to rush to the bedside of her lover, the earl of Bothwell (1535-78), who was wounded by English troops. Still mired in the misty gloom of the 1300s, this medieval castle was restored in the early 1800s. Its original owner, Lord Soulis, was accused of devil worship and was boiled alive by the angry townspeople.
If you want to follow in the footsteps of Mary Queen of Scots, you can drive from Jedburgh to Hermitage Castle. It was to Hermitage that Mary was headed when she made her famous 64km (40-mile) ride from Jedburgh to rush to the bedside of her lover, the earl of Bothwell (1535-78), who was wounded by English troops. Still mired in the misty gloom of the 1300s, this medieval castle was restored in the early 1800s. Its original owner, Lord Soulis, was accused of devil worship and was boiled alive by the angry townspeople.
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