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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.
Melrose (Scottish Gaelic: Maolros, "bald moor") [2] is a town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders, historically in Roxburghshire. [3] It lies within the Eildon committee area of Scottish Borders Council .
The mid hilltop is the highest, whilst the south hilltop is the lowest. The hills are owned by the Duke of Buccleuch, [4] Scotland's largest private landowner. [5] As with all land in Scotland the public have a right of responsible access to the hills, [6] and there are many paths crossing the area and leading to all three summits. [7]
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."
Killin serves as a base for exploration of both the highlands and central Scotland. Common day trips to places such as Oban and Glencoe in the Highlands, the market towns of Aberfeldy and Crieff , as well as the lowland urban centres of Glasgow, Stirling, Perth, Dundee and Edinburgh are all within a short distance by car.
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]
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 ...