Kelso
Kelso is a small market town in the Borders region of southern Scotland, with a population of 6900 in 2020. Its name probably derives from Calk Heugh - the "chalk outcrop" which its two rivers cut through.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,610 residents
- Description: town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Kelso, Roxburghshire” and “Kelso, Scottish Borders”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Floors Castle and Kelso Abbey.
Floors Castle
Photo: Hogweard, Public domain.
Floors Castle, in Roxburghshire, south-east Scotland, is the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe. Despite its name it is an estate house rather than a fortress.
Kelso Abbey
Cemetery
Photo: Scotfocus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kelso Abbey is a ruined Scottish abbey in Kelso, Scotland. It was founded in the 12th century by a community of Tironensian monks first brought to Scotland in the reign of Alexander I.
Kelso Town Hall
Tourism office
Photo: ArchHist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kelso Town Hall is a municipal building in The Square, Kelso, Scotland. The building, which was the headquarters of Kelso Burgh Council, is a Category B listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roxburgh and Ednam.
Roxburgh
Village
Photo: Steve Kent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roxburgh is a civil parish and formerly a royal burgh, in the historic county of Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was an important trading burgh in High Medieval to early modern Scotland. Roxburgh is situated 2½ miles southwest of Kelso.
Ednam
Village
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Ednam is a small village near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Places nearby include Stichill, Sprouston, Nenthorn, Eccles, Gordon, Greenlaw as well as Floors Castle. Ednam is situated 2 miles north of Kelso.
Stichill
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stichill is a village and civil parish in the historic county of Roxburghshire, a division of the Scottish Borders. Situated 2 miles north of the Burgh of Kelso, Stichill lies north of the Eden Water and 5 miles from the English Border at Coldstream. Stichill is situated 3 miles north of Kelso.
Kelso
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.5984° or 55° 35′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.4338° or 2° 26′ 2″ westPopulation
5,610Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KLOOpen location code
9C7VHHX8+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 366067322OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Kelso” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Քելսո”
- Asturian: “Kelso”
- Basque: “Kelso”
- Bengali: “কেলসো”
- Catalan: “Kelso”
- Cebuano: “Kelso”
- Chinese: “克艾素”
- Chinese: “凯尔索”
- Danish: “Kelso”
- Dutch: “Kelso”
- Esperanto: “Kelso”
- French: “Kelso”
- German: “Kelso”
- Gujarati: “કેલ્સો”
- Hebrew: “קלסו”
- Irish: “Cealsaidh”
- Italian: “Kelso”
- Japanese: “ケルソー”
- Kannada: “ಕೆಲ್ಸೊ”
- Korean: “켈소”
- Lithuanian: “Kelsas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kelso”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kelso”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cealchōh”
- Persian: “کلسو، اسکاتیش بوردرز”
- Polish: “Kelso”
- Portuguese: “Kelso”
- Russian: “Келсо”
- Scots: “Kelsae”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cealsach”
- Silesian: “Kelso (Szkocyjo)”
- Silesian: “Kelso”
- Slovenian: “Kelso”
- Spanish: “Kelso”
- Swedish: “Kelso, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Kelso”
- Tamil: “கெல்சோ”
- Telugu: “కెల్సో”
- Ukrainian: “Келсо”
- Urdu: “کیلسو”
- Welsh: “Calchfynydd”
- Welsh: “Kelso”
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