• Jedburgh Visitor information website

Jedburgh is on the A68 which links Edinburgh to northeast England via a scenic, switchback road over the hills. The summit and border at Carter Bar is passable in all but the worst weather. If it's unsafe, the workaround is the low-level route from Newcastle via Wooler, Coldstream and Kelso.

Buses are frequent along the main transport corridor Galashiels - Tweedbank - Melrose - Newton St Boswells - Jedburgh.

Borders Bus 68 runs hourly fromGalashiels via Kingsknowes (for Abbotsford), Tweedbank (for trains from Edinburgh), Melrose and St Boswells (for Dryburgh Abbey), taking just under an hour to Jedburgh.

Borders Bus 51 runs every two hours daily from Edinburgh along the A68, viaDalkeith, Lauder (for Thirlestane Castle) and Earlston to St Boswells, where you change for Bus 68. It's quicker from Edinburgh to take the train to Tweedbank and change.

Peter Hogg Bus 131 runs Monday to Saturday to Jedburgh along A68 / A696 from Otterburn, Newcastle Airport and Newcastle. It runs south in the morning and returns north to Jedburgh early afternoon.

Hogg Bus 20 runs every hour or two fromKelso to Jedburgh (25 min) and continues toHawick (30 min).

The main bus halt, it is too small to call it a station, is directly next to Canongate car park.

Cycling is good for the back roads, although the hills rise steeply from the Jed Valley. There is no cycle repair shop, but the hardware store may have enough for basic repairs.

If you have reasonable fitness, you can walk to the main attractions. The walking is mostly flat, pavements are plentiful, and car speed is limited to 20mph.

Peter Hogg the bus operator also runs taxis, +44 1835 863755.

• 55.4765-2.55511Jedburgh Abbey,Abbey Bridge End TD8 6JQ,☏+44 1835 863925.Apr-Sep: 10AM-5PM, Oct-Mar: 10AM-4PM.This ruined but imposing Augustinian abbey was founded in 1138 and was a frequent target for invading English armies. It continued in use as a parish church at the Reformation in 1560, saving it from wreckage, and it served until 1871 when a new town church was built. There is a cloister and herb garden, and a visitor centre with 8th-century carvings and artefacts excavated from the abbey grounds. In 2022 the abbey interior is closed for building safety, but you can see plenty from the street.£3.50. (updated Sep 2022)
• 55.4742-2.55892Jedburgh Castle Jail,Castlegate TD8 6AS,☏+44 1835 864750.Apr-Oct: M-Sa 10AM-4PM, Su 10AM-3PM.The castle was demolished in 1409, but the site was rebuilt as a prison in 1823, and it's been restored to that period. The jailer's house depicts town history. "Jedburgh Justice" (hanging first, trial later) was a much earlier practice: lynch law for cattle rustlers.Donation. (updated Apr 2022)
• 55.478611-2.5527783Mary Queen of Scots House,Queen St, TD8 6EN(easily found on Queen Street that runs parallel to the High St.),☏+44 1835 863331.Mar-Oct: daily 10AM-4PM, Nov to 3PM.This is a 16th-century tower house. In 1566 Mary, Queen of Scots stayed here, and made a long excursion to visit the wounded Earl of Bothwell out at Hermitage Castle. On return she was taken seriously ill, the cause isn't known, but she eventually recovered and returned to Edinburgh. There are "Mary QoS slept here" sites all over Scotland, but that was normal for a peripatetic medieval ruler, especially one with multiple enemies that she needed to stay ahead of.Donation. (updated Sep 2022)
• 55.47465-2.553694Old and Trinity Church.south across the main road from the abbey was the replacement of 1875. This was the mainstream Church of Scotland, but there were great schisms and sects and separate churches in that era; they made up and re-united in 2007. (updated Sep 2025)
• 55.477957-2.5511685Canongate Bridge,Old Bridge End, TD8 6EU.A charming 16th-century bridge over Jed Water mid-town. It's now just a footpath, but it was the main road into town until about 1800. (updated Sep 2025)
• Jedburgh Library was one of many endowed by philanthropist tycoon Andrew Carnegie. The first in Jedburgh was on High St from 1894, then it re-located to this larger building from 1900.
• Greyfriars Garden on The Friars a block west of High St is on the site of the 15th century Franciscan Friary. It's been restored as a monastic garden of that time.

• 55.4963-2.57846Timpendean Tower on A698 west is the stump of a 15th-century towerhouse. There's nowhere to park nearby.
• 55.4801-2.6637Fatlips Castle north of the Teviot is a 16th-century peel tower. It was renovated in 2013 and is private property — you maybe don't want the slobbery traditional greeting that gave rise to the name.
• Barnhills Tower half a mile east is of similar date but well ruined.
• 55.5147-2.55768Monteviot,Ancrum TD8 6UH,☏+44 1835 830830.Garden Apr-Oct: daily noon-5PM.The 18th-century mansion is the home of the Marquess of Lothian (Michael Ancram, b 1945). It's occasionally open, but not in 2022. The extensive gardens are the attraction. Assistance dogs only.Garden £6. (updated Apr 2022)
• Waterloo Monument(it is on private land; walkers may park at the Harestanes Visitor Centre and then follow the marked walk to the top of the hill).The tower is not open to the public, although a key to the monument can be borrowed at a small cost from the Lothian Estates Office in nearby Bonjedward. (updated Sep 2022)
• Ancrum Caves west of Monteviot were etched out of a bluff for Border thieves to hide their plunder. They've become eroded by landslip and are unsafe to approach.
• 55.5336-2.61529Monteath Mausoleum is seen from A68 on the ridge north of Liliardsedge — that's probably the closest you'll view it as there's nowhere to park. It was built in 1864 for General Sir Thomas Monteath Douglas, who defended Jalalabad in the First Anglo-Afghan War of 1842.

• 55.5077-2.414110Cessford Castle towards Kelso is the ruin of a 15th-century L-plan tower house. Its owners the Kerrs were notorious border bandits, but they went upmarket in 1650, becoming Dukes of Roxburghe, moving to Floors Castle and abandoning Cessford.
• 55.4674-2.473911Oxnam Kirk is from the 17th century and still in use. The tiny village was on the main road 1900 years ago: the Roman Dere Street crossed the Cheviots 5 miles east of the modern A68 route. You'll need an archaeologist's eye to make out Pennymuir Camp south towards the crest. This was a Roman "marching camp", not intended as a permanent structure.
• 55.4622-2.554612Capon Oak Tree is 500 years old and looks it, like a Struldbrugg beauty queen held together by masonry and metal beams. It's one of the last survivors of the Caledonian primeval forest. But the sandstone bluffs along the nearby riverbank show how relatively young that tree is: the strata are vertical, overlain by horizontal. The geologist James Hutton (1726-97) realised that this "unconformity" couldn't be the result of simple sedimentation. Some vast gradual upheaval had occurred, and the earth must be much older than had been supposed.
• 55.4543-2.5512413Ferniehirst Castle(two miles south of town on A68).It is a 15th-century L-plan fortified mansion. It's been much smashed up but restored in the 19th and 20th centuries. It can be visited by pre-booked guided tour in July, and occasionally hires out for functions at other times. (updated Feb 2024)
• 55.3545-2.478114Carter Bar on A68 is the border with England. There's a large layby, and in summer ice-cream and burger vans and busking bagpipers greet the coach tours. The view south into Northumbria is a lonely moorland, north is better with the quiltwork of forests and fields, and triple-peaked Eildon hills. The ridge blocks the view west. East you look over the long spine of border hills to The Cheviot, bleak and often cloud-wreathed. SeeKirk Yetholm if you want to climb it or embark on thePennine Way.

• Borders Rally is off-road car racing along the forest trails of the Cheviot hills. Flag-off and finish line are in town, see their website for spectator areas, but race marshalling is based in Newton St Boswells. It's held in May, with the next probably on 3 May 2025, tbc.
• Jedforest Sevens are a simple knock-out contest between 16 teams, next held on Sa 17 May 2025.
• Jethart Callant's Festival is a series of civic events and horse-rides "beating the bounds" in summer, culminating in a mass ride from Jedburgh on F 11 July 2025.
• EdgeFest is a music event at Liiliardsedge Caravan Park on A68 north towards Melrose, with the next probably on 30-31 Aug 2025, tbc.
• Three Peaks Ultra Marathon is next run on Sa 25 Oct 2025.