Half price, then free, for English Heritage members
This place is cared for by Historic Environment Scotland. First-year English Heritage members get 50% off the ticket price; members who have renewed get in free. Bring your valid membership card, and any pre-booked tickets, to ensure entry.
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In-person price; £7.50 booked online. One undated price table is published; recheck in spring 2027. Children under 7 free but need a ticket; up to two carers free per transaction; Young Scot card holders pay £1 online. Audio guide on your own device included. Explorer Pass accepted. No family ticket. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card; bookings capped at six people per membership. Historic Scotland members free.
In-person price; £3.50 booked online; under-7s free with a ticket. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card; bookings capped at six people per membership. Historic Scotland members free.
In-person price; £6 booked online. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card; bookings capped at six people per membership. Historic Scotland members free.
No charge for anyone.
Historic Scotland says there is a public car park 100 m from the site with adapted toilets, and that visitors can be dropped off at the front door. Scottish Borders Council lists its Lothian Park car park in Jedburgh as free, with 95 standard and 2 disabled spaces, beside the Abbey Bridge End car park and public toilets, so the status is recorded as free; the council's Canongate (140 spaces) and Friars Burn (38) car parks are free too. Coach parking and a bicycle rack are listed.
Driving pin: the Abbey Bridge End car park, 104 m south of HES's pin on the abbey. The 4 Abbeys Cycle Route board stands at the car park and the Borders Abbeys Way starts in the town. Historic Scotland names only its journey planners for buses.
Jedburgh Abbey is one of the four great abbeys founded in the Scottish Borders in the 1100s, and its church of St Mary the Virgin stands almost complete, though roofless. David I founded an Augustinian priory here in 1138 on a site that had been a religious centre for 300 years, raised to an abbey in 1154, and the church took more than 70 years to build: Romanesque round arches and cylindrical pillars in the east end give way to the Gothic nave begun about 1180, with pointed arcades and a magnificent west front crowned by a great rose window of about 1440. Edward I stripped lead from the roof in 1305 and the abbey was fought over for centuries. The visitor centre shows carved stones of the 700s to 1000s, including the richly carved Jedburgh Shrine, and a recreated cloister herb garden scents the ruins. Visitors call it one of Scotland's most spectacular medieval ruins, with remarkably intact arcades and friendly staff.
Later dates are in the calendar.
Prices, non-members
| Ticket | On the day | Online |
|---|---|---|
| Adult | £8.50 | £7.50 |
| Concession | £6.80 | £6.00 |
| Child | £3.75 | £3.50 |
1 April to 30 September daily 9.30am to 5pm; 1 October to 31 March daily 10am to 4pm; last entry 30 minutes before closing; closed 25 and 26 December and 1 and 2 January. Historic Scotland recommends booking in advance to guarantee entry. Notice: much of the abbey is open, but some small areas including the viewing gallery are closed for conservation, and the stone masonry exhibition and the virtual-tour interactive are unavailable.
The shop's ground floor has level access through wide doors; the exhibition and toilets are on the first floor up a modern spiral staircase with handrails, or by a ramp the steward opens on request, and the exhibition gives an excellent view of the whole site. The route through the cloister range into the church is about 65 m, starting on a timber-decked steel bridge with flights of 28 and 8 steps, then gravel paths with several further sets of stone steps, some uneven and without handrails, seven steps into the kitchen and narrow steps into the undercroft. Four benches in the cloister and picnic tables in the orchard and west range; adapted toilets in the visitor centre and the car park; baby changing; audio guide on your own device included, with large-print versions; no cafe. Dogs welcome in the outdoor areas.
Dogs: Dogs are welcome in the outdoor areas of the abbey; HES's general rule keeps pet dogs out of roofed areas such as the visitor centre, shop and exhibition. No lead rule is stated for Jedburgh. The roofless church, cloister and orchard inside the ticketed site.
Photo: Jedburgh Abbey's roofless nave arcades and central tower rising above trees and town roofs, seen from the car park. Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jedburgh_Abbey_main_building_seen_from_the_parking_lot.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.
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109 km waymarked circuit through the Borders towns and villages featuring the ruined abbeys of Melrose, Dryburgh, Kelso and Jedburgh, starting at Melrose or Jedburgh; walk a section from the abbey. Free.
