Jedburgh, county town of Roxburghshire, picturesquely situated on the Jed, 30 m. SW. of Berwick, and 10 m. SW. of Kelso; is an ancient town of many historic memories; made a royal burgh by David I.; contains the ruins of an abbey, and has some woollen manufactures.
Population (circa 1900) given as 3,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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