Hopetoun House
Hopetoun House is a stately home near South Queensferry owned by the Hopetoun House Preservation Trust, a charity established in 1974 to preserve the house and grounds as a national monument, to protect and improve their amenities, and to preserve the furniture, paintings, manuscripts, and other articles of historical interest associated with the house.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Estate
- Description: country house in Abercorn, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Hopetoun Auxiliary Hospital”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abercorn Church and Midhope Castle.
Midhope Castle
Castle
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Midhope Castle is a late 16th-century tower house in Scotland. It is situated in the hamlet of Abercorn on the Hopetoun estate, About 4 kilometres to the west of South Queensferry, on the outskirts of Edinburgh. It is a Category A listed building.
Forth Road Bridge
Bridge
The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The bridge opened in 1964 and, at the time, was the longest suspension bridge in the world outside the United States. Forth Road Bridge is situated 2½ miles east of Hopetoun House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abercorn and Blackness.
Abercorn
Village
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Abercorn is a village and civil parish in West Lothian, Scotland. Close to the south coast of the Firth of Forth, the village is around 5 km west of South Queensferry. The parish had a population of 458 at the 2011 Census.
Blackness
Village
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Blackness is a small village and harbour at Blackness Bay, an inlet of the Firth of Forth in Scotland. It lies 3.4 mi east-southeast of Bo'ness, 5.0 mi west-northwest of South Queensferry and 3.8 mi north-east of Linlithgow, within the council area of Falkirk. Blackness is situated 2½ miles west of Hopetoun House.
Winchburgh
Town
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Winchburgh is a town in Scotland. It is located approximately ten miles west of the city centre of Edinburgh, six miles east of Linlithgow and three miles northeast of Broxburn. Winchburgh is situated 2½ miles south of Hopetoun House.
Hopetoun House
- Categories: country house, hospital, and agriculture
- Location: West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Hopetoun House” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “霍普頓別墅”
- Dutch: “Hopetoun House”
- French: “Hopetoun House”
- German: “Hopetoun House”
- Japanese: “ホープトン・ハウス”
- Portuguese: “Hopetoun House”
- Russian: “Дворец Хопутоун”
- Russian: “Хоуптоун”
- Spanish: “Casa Hopetoun”
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