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National Trust for Scotland properties is a link page listing the cultural, built and natural heritage properties and sites owned or managed by the National Trust for Scotland. Aberdeen and Grampian [ edit ]
The trust has three further properties in the Scottish Borders. Priorwood Garden is also in Melrose, whereas Robert Smail's Printing Works is in Innerleithen and the other is the St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve. The Borders Book Festival takes place here each summer. [4] taking advantage of the large lawn.
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type."
In 2005, Scottish Borders Council considered an application by a property developer to build a housing estate on the opposite bank of the River Tweed from Abbotsford, to which Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland objected. [15] [16] There have been modifications to the proposed development, but it is still being opposed in 2020 ...
Melrose is the birthplace of Rugby Sevens and also has a rugby union team, Melrose RFC. Every year on the second Saturday in April the famous Melrose Sevens are held at the Greenyards and is the biggest annual sporting event held in the town. Rugby union has always been the most popular sport in Melrose.
The family seat is Brechin Castle near Brechin, Angus, which is currently put up for sale through the Savills real estate company. The other former seat, Dalhousie Castle, was sold in the late 20th century and is now a hotel. Until then it was said to be a property longer in one family than any other in Scotland.
Bowden is a village in the Roxburghshire area of the Scottish Borders, situated 3 miles (5 kilometres) south of Melrose, 2 miles (3 kilometres) west of Newtown St Boswells and tucked in the shadow of the Eildon Hills, Scotland.
Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch c 1860s. The house was built in 1802 for the Royal Navy surgeon Thomas Mein. [6] [7] [8] Extensions were designed by the famous Scottish architect William Burn [6] for the fifth Duke of Buccleuch, who bought the house in 1838 [2] and wanted to use it as a base during the fox hunting season. [9]