Kelso, Bridge Street, General
General View
Site Name Kelso, Bridge Street, General
Classification General View
Canmore ID 95847
Site Number NT73SW 137
NGR NT 7280 3383
NGR Description NT 7276 3391 to NT 7285 3368
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/95847
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Kelso
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
Bridge Street runs from Kelso Bridge to The Square, and today features a mixture of private and commercial properties, many dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These include the splendid Ednam House Hotel, an elegant manse, and The Queen's Head Hotel, an early nineteenth-century coaching inn. The town's war memorial, a tall cross standing on a plinth with carved panels, stands on Bridge Street, designed to be one of the first things to be seen when crossing Kelso Bridge. Nos 9-11 Bridge Street, now partly occupied by a shop, was the first house in Kelso to have gaslight fitted.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project