Let’s move to Kelso, Roxburghshire: this is a mighty fine town

Every street is an architectural delightWhat’s going for it? I’m a sucker for a bit of Romanesque architecture. Even the prospect of a half-ruined tower and a crumbled jamb is enough to drag me several score miles off my beaten track. I’m easily distracted. And so I come to Kelso. Like those in its neighbouring border market towns, Kelso’s abbey is a shadow of its 12th-century self, when it was the richest, mightiest monastery in the region. But even the fragments left be