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Kelso bus station on Roxburgh Street is a brief walk from The Square, where you'll find the tourist office in the Town Hall (July & Aug Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 10am-5pm; April-June & Sept Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-1pm; Oct Mon-Sat 10am-4.30pm, Sun 10am-1pm; tel 01573/223464). Accommodation is usually not a problem: one of the best B&Bs in town is Abbey Bank, near Kelso Pottery on The Knowes (tel 01573/226550, diah@abbeybank.freeserve.co.uk; £40-50), a Georgian house with large double beds and a lovely south-facing garden. Another good choice is the Ednam House Hotel (tel 01573/224168, www.ednamhouse.com; £70-90), a splendid Georgian mansion set back off Bridge Street, with antique furnishings and fittings and gardens that abut the Tweed; make sure, though, that you're not put in the modern extension. Lastly, there's the Roxburghe Hotel (tel 01573/450331, www.roxburghe.net; £110-150), a luxury hotel two miles south of Kelso on the A698 at Heiton, owned by the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, which also boasts an eighteen-hole championship golf course.
Most eating places are just off The Square: the Cobbles Inn restaurant is housed in a former pub just up Bowmont Street - check the specials menu for the best dishes - and The Queen's Head, on Bridge Street, has an extremely adventurous bar meal menu. The moderately expensive Ednam House Hotel (see above) restaurant is more upmarket and often features some unusual dishes, while the restaurant at the Roxburghe Hotel is even more formal, its top-quality food and service matched by correspondingly high prices.
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