Abbots ford

the home of Sir Walter Scott, which he lavished his earnings, and where lived in seigneurial stvle, is an irregular, many building situated three miles from Melon the sloping bank of the Tweed. Sir Walter converted it from a farmhouse into a and his descendants preserve it as a of personal and national relics. ‘The author's apartments remain just as they left when he died. Here may be seen some memorials of the Stuart period, and bust of Scott by Chantrey.