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Extract from the Melrose Travel Guides:
Tucked in between the Tweed and the gorse-backed Eildon Hills, thirty miles south of Edinburgh, minuscule
MELROSE
is the most beguiling of towns, its narrow streets trimmed by a harmonious ensemble of styles, from pretty little cottages and tweedy shops to high-standing Georgian and Victorian facades. Most of the year it's a sleepy little place, but as the birthplace in 1883 of the
Rugby Sevens
(seven-a-side games), it swarms during Sevens Week (second week in April), and again in early September when it hosts the
Melrose Music Festival
, a popular weekend of traditional music attracting folkies fro...
read the whole Melrose Travel Guides...
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