Melrose
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Melrose a small historical city is in the Scottish borderland (Scottish Borders) on the bank of the river Tweed. The name "Melrose" comes from the Celtic one "mail rhos", which ordered as much as ", managed meadow "means. Melrose lies in the County Roxburghshire.
History
Originally Melrose carried the name "Fordel". Only as in the year 1136 Cistercian monks began, those 839 originally destroyed and some miles far lain east Melrose Abbey to develop in the proximity of the settlement again, the locality took over gradually the name of the monastery. In 14. Century and in the forties 16. Century suffered the city exactly like the abbey repeated among the incident English troops. As the abbey finally in the year 1560 because of that Reformation finally to be closed had, the city Melrose was already an established center for Woll and linen production.
Objects of interest
In Melrose is the ruin of Melrose Abbey, where allegedly the heart of the Scottish king Robert I., called "Robert the Bruce", to be buried is. In the proximity of Melrose lie the Roman castellet Trimontium and Dryburgh Abbey. The nearby Eildon Hills an important basis of the trunk was that in the eisenzeit Votadini, that the remnants of an enormous hill fortress on the summit of the easternmost hill remind. In the hills is allegedly also King Artus buried its. Some miles west is appropriate for the city Abbotsford House, Homeland of the writer Sir walter Scott.
