Edinburgh – Jedburgh – Heddon on the Wall, England - York

This tour is about to come to an end.  Tomorrow I’ll be back in London and the next day on my way back to California and Montana.  It has been great.  What a treat to get to see all these countries, even as limited as it was.

Leaving Edinburgh today our first stop was in Jedburgh (again pronounced Jedburough) which is the home of a woolen mill and the Jedburgh Abbey.

When crossing from Scotland to England (on this particular road which is on the top of a very windy hill seemingly in the middle of nowhere) there is a big rock that has Scotland etched on one side and England on the other.  AND there is a man playing the bagpipes.  Cute huh?

England and Scotland's flags side by side.

You can see how the wind was blowing.

Stop number two was in Heddon on the Wall, England, to see what is left of Hadrian’s Wall which dates back to 122 AD.  It was ordered by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a means of establishing a northern boundary for Rome.  In its day the wall was 15 feet high, 10 feet wide, and 75 miles long.  (Eat your heart out China!)

Also in Heddon on the Wall was St. Andrew’s Church that dates back to 650 AD.  So hard to believe how old these places are.

We stopped in York for the night.  (In case you didn’t remember Prince Andrew is the Duke of York because he is the second son of the Monarch.)   The Cathedral of St. Peter in York is one of the largest of its kind in northern Europe.  It is the seat of the Archbishop of York, the second highest office of the Church of England, and is the cathedral for the Diocese of York. 

 Remnants of the wall that surrounded the city of York originally.