Independent Trails: Fact File BAW1

 

Borders Abbeys Way

 

Trail Facts

 

Total distance: 68 miles (109km)

Duration: 6 nights, 5 days walking

Minimum/maximum daily distances: 10 miles (16 km)/18 miles (29 km)

Waymarking: The trail is clearly waymarked with Borders Abbeys Way symbols and is very easy to follow

Season: All year

Starting point of holiday: Jedburgh

End of holiday: Jedburgh

Tour code: BAW1

 

Itinerary

 

Day 1: Travel to Jedburgh.

 

Day 2: Jedburgh to Hawick                                             14 ½ miles (23 km)

 

Day 3: Hawick to Selkirk                                                12 miles (19 km)

 

Day 4: Selkirk to Melrose                                               10 miles (16 km)

 

Day 5: Melrose to Kelso                                                 18 miles (29 km)

 

Day 6: Kelso to Jedburgh                                                13 ½ miles (22 km)

 

Day 7: Depart Jedburgh

 

 

Extra nights/Rest days

 

Jedburgh is an attractive town with many interesting sites of historic interest ranging from its magnificent abbey to Jedburgh Castle Jail and Mary Queen of Scots House.   Hawick is a good choice for a rest day if you wish to shop for luxury knitwear at its many factory outlets.    Selkirk is another pleasant Borders town with two fascinating museums (Halliwell’s House Museum and Walter Scott’s Courtroom).   Melrose is the loveliest of all the Borders towns.   It is a charming mix of delightful little shops, narrow streets, Georgian and Victorian facades and the best of the Border abbeys.  Kelso is a picturesque little town with cobbled streets leading into a wide market square bounded by elegant three-storey townhouses and shops.   Floors Castle, the vast ancestral home of the Duke of Roxburghe is about a twenty-minute walk from the town.

 

 

What's included

 

• 6 nights accommodation in selected hotels, inns and guesthouses.
• Traditional cooked breakfast.
• Door to door luggage transfer along the trail.
• Maps with the route marked on and a guidebook describing the trail.
• An information pack containing an itinerary with detailed instructions on how to find your accommodation each night, information about facilities and places of interest along the trail and a kit list.
• Detailed travel instructions on how to get to the start of your holiday and back from the end of it.
• Emergency assistance.

 

Travel Information

 

Detailed instructions on how to get to the start of the holiday and back from the end of it are sent to you on booking.   A summary is given below.

 

Most convenient airports: Edinburgh or Newcastle.

 

Most convenient railway stations: Edinburgh, Berwick-upon-Tweed or Newcastle.  

 

Onward travel:  There are frequent buses between Jedburgh and Edinburgh (approximately 2 hours), Berwick-upon-Tweed (approximately 2 hours) and Newcastle (approximately 1 ½ hours).

 

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