Scott's resting place

Dryburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders was Sir Walter Scott's final resting place. It has a beautiful setting and was somewhere from which he drew inspiration for his writing and poetry. He identified the ruins of the Abbey at an early age as the place he wished his remains to be buried. 
Visiting it on this windless morning, as the low rays of the winter sun cast their warm light over the pinkish stonework of the north transept, it was difficult to imagine the day in 1832 when thousands of people followed the long funeral procession of carriages through the villages and hamlets from his home at Abbotsford. 
In terms of interest this was the equivalent of a state funeral. He was the first Scot to celebrate Scotland in his work and put it firmly on the global map. People were assembled at different parts of the road, and on elevated points. 300 had passes to enter the Abbey grounds, but it was his staff who cared for him who manoeuvred the coffin to its  resting place.They had specially requested that 'no foreign hand should be allowed to touch the remains of a master so honoured and so beloved'.
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