Let’s move to Jedburgh, Roxburghshire

What’s going for it? Imagine the scenario. On 18 September, Scotland actually voted yes for independence. The border country becomes a real border country once again. Pretty little towns such as Jedburgh, which, in recent decades, have made a living selling shortbread, love hearts and heather-scented honey to middle-aged tourists (like me), get their old role back. Frontier towns. Garrison towns. Their long-dead histories of raiders and reivers and smugglers and pillagers, if not totally revived, then at least haunt the streets once again. We’re not talking troops back on the battlements of the castle jail, but there’s a reason they built houses with fat, stone walls round these parts before the union, and why the tower of the picturesquely ruined abbey still looks as if it could fend off Isis, the Taliban and the Hulk. Anyway, they didn’t vote that way, so Jedburgh can carry on veiling its tough, savage past under a cover of delightful Georgian town houses and a damned good selection of souvenir tea towels.

The case against Rather out of the way, and somewhat prim.

Well connected? Not really near anything but forests, hills and border towns. Train-less. Driving: Edinburgh is 75 minutess, the A1, Berwick and the coast around an hour; 90 minutes to Newcastle and, the other way, to the A74 (M). There’s a decent bus to Edinburgh (hourly, two hours), Melrose (hourly, 30 minutes), Kelso and Hawick (both hourly, both 25 minutes).

Schools Primaries: Howdenburn is mostly “good” or “very good”, says HMIE, and Parkside Primary mostly “good”. Secondaries: the town’s Jedburgh Grammar is mostly “satisfactory”, occasionally “good”.

Hang out at… Scallops, steak and fillet of hare at The Caddy Mann. Yes, please.

Where to buy The historic core is tightly packed with neat, stone-built Georgian town houses and terraces with aforementioned thick walls. For suburbans, hunt on and off The Friars and Lanton Road to the north and west of the town, and up the slopes in the east, for instance the top of Oxnam Road. Large detacheds £250,000-£450,000. Detacheds, £170,000-£250,000. Town houses, £200,000-£300,000. Semis, £130,000-£270,000. Terraces, £100,000-£160,000. Flats, £65,000-£130,000. Rentals: little to rent, but a four-bedroom detached is about £650pcm.

Bargain of the week Tidy, two-bedroom terrace, £99,000 with Lindsays via rightmove.co.uk.

From the streets

Liz Murdoch “The Clock Tower restaurant does beautiful food, plus there are lovely independent shops, such as the Jedburgh Chocolate House.”

Andy Roberts “I love the friendly bustle of the place: a proper butcher and ironmonger, a Carnegie library, good crafts, gifts and vintage gems.”

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