Abbotsford
Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Galashiels, on the south bank of the River Tweed. Now open to the public, it was built as the residence of historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott between 1817 and 1825.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: country house in Tweedbank, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Abbotsford House” and “Abbotsford, Scottish Borders”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Netherdale and Kingsknowes Hotel, Kingsknowe Drive, Galashiels.
Netherdale
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Netherdale is a sports complex in Galashiels, Scottish Borders, consisting of two adjacent stadiums used for rugby union and football. The rugby ground is the home of Gala RFC and was formerly used by the professional Border Reivers team.
Tweedbank railway station
Railway station
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Tweedbank is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 35 miles 34 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the village of Tweedbank in Scottish Borders, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tweedbank and Boleside.
Tweedbank
Village
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Tweedbank is a town south-east of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. It is part of the county of Roxburghshire. It is an outer suburb of Galashiels, on the other side of the River Tweed. The population of Tweedbank at the latest census is 2,101.
Boleside
Hamlet
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Boleside is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the B7060, south of Galashiels. It is very close to the place where the Ettrick Water joins the River Tweed.
Galashiels
Photo: John Brewer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders, 33 miles south of Edinburgh. It's a former mill town which is now part of commuterland for the city, and in 2016 had a population of about 12,600.
Abbotsford
- Category: country house
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Abbotsford” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أبوتسفورد هاوس”
- Armenian: “Էբբոտսֆորդ”
- Armenian: “Էբոտսֆորդ Հաուս”
- Belarusian: “Эбатсфард”
- Catalan: “Abbotsford”
- Chinese: “阿伯茨福德庄园”
- Czech: “Abbotsford”
- Dutch: “Abbotsford House”
- French: “Abbotsford”
- Georgian: “ებოტსფორდი”
- German: “Abbotsford House”
- German: “Abbotsford”
- Hebrew: “אבוטספורד”
- Hebrew: “בית אבבוטספורד”
- Hebrew: “בית אבוטספורד”
- Indonesian: “Rumah Abbotsford”
- Irish: “Teach Abbotsford”
- Italian: “Abbotsford House”
- Japanese: “アボッツフォード・ハウス”
- Japanese: “アボッツフォードの邸宅”
- Japanese: “アボッツフォード邸”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abbotsford”
- Polish: “Abbotsford House”
- Polish: “Abbotsford”
- Portuguese: “Residência Abbotsford”
- Russian: “Эбботсфорд”
- Rusyn: “Ебботсфорд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Taigh Àth an Aba”
- Slovenian: “Abbotsford House”
- Slovenian: “Abbotsford”
- Spanish: “Abbotsford House”
- Swedish: “Abbotsford House”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Galafoot and Netherdale.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Galavale House and Gala Hill.
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