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Blue plaque № 89779

Jedburgh, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom

The Courthouse. Jedburgh was formerly the county town of Roxburghshire and the seat of a Sheriff Court and High Court. Here were council offices as well as a courthouse. In 1812 French prisoners-of-war helped construct a townhouse here. Early in his career Walter Scott was an advocate in trials here

. Nowadays it houses the Sheriff Court.

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