Aerial view of Melrose Abbey, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK.

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St Mary's Abbey, Melrose is a partly ruined monastery of the Cistercian order in Melrose, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. It was founded in 1136 by Cistercian monks at the request of King David I of Scotland and was the chief house of that order in the country until the Reformation.

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Size: 5464px × 3640px
Location: Melrose, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Ian Rutherford / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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