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Visited on the last day of October 2020, this wee ruin is at the bottom of a (really, really) narrow single track lane, off the A70, a few miles drive from Kirknewton. It’s not the easiest to find, so I’d recommend Google mapping once you are in the area.  There is a reasonably sized carContinue reading “Cairns Castle”

Visited on a dreich afternoon, 1st November 2020. Abbotsford House and Gardens sits beside the River Tweed, a five minute drive from Galashiels and accessible off the A6091.  Bought as a modest farm steading by Sir Walter Scott in 1811, the grounds and house were subject to extensive renovation and development by the author overContinue reading “Abbotsford”