Rosslyn Chapel

After the Forth Bridge, we went down to see Rosslyn Chapel. The chapel was started in 1446, and construction appears to have ended in 1484, with the death of its founder, William St. Clair.


The standard tourist shot of the standard tourists.



It had been covered up with scaffolding and a roof, for many years, while conservation was underway. You can see some new stone on the building.



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the border and The Borders

Our first day in Scotland was spent in Edinburgh. On Monday, the second day, as soon as we'd had breakfast, we left the city for the Forth Bridge. That's just west of the city. Then we went to Rosslyn Chapel, which is just south of it. After that, we went to the southeast, towards the Flodden Battlefield. This area of Scotland is called The Borders. On the way, we passed through the town of Coldstream, which is on the River Tweed, which is the English border, at that point.


Coldstream, on the Tweed.


Coldstream Bridage, over the Tweed.


Fisherman, in the Tweed.

So after stopping to look at the bridge, we came to the even-smaller town of Cornhill-on-Tweed, which is a half a mile from the River Tweed. But it had a quaint little kirkyard, with its very old graves.


Mary Nevins the beloved daughter of James & Margaret Nevins who died at Crookham April 11th 1881 aged 13 years
This lovely bud so young so fair
Called home by early doom
Came but to show how sweet a flower
In Paradise could bloom

I had wanted to check out the old cemeteries of Edinburgh, but we never had time to see Greyfriars or Calton Hill. I just poked my head into the cemetery below the castle (seen in the photos of the view), but it wasn't very interesting. This one looked just like you'd expect, and had a few very old graves.

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Most old cemeteries we found had a lot of graves dating to the mid and late 1800's. This one had a handful from the 1700's.

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Like this one, that seems to read 1733. The one behind it on the left has a date of 1797.

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