Mellen Dean

Mellen Dean is a deciduous forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Mellen Dean is situated nearby to the hamlet Wooden, as well as near the locality Middlemostwalls.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kelso Abbey and Floors Castle.

Kelso Abbey

Cemetery

Photo: Scotfocus, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kelso Abbey is a ruined Scottish abbey in Kelso, Scotland. It was founded in the 12th century by a community of Tironensian monks first brought to Scotland in the reign of Alexander I.

Floors Castle

Photo: Hogweard, Public domain.

Floors Castle, in Roxburghshire, south-east Scotland, is the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe. Despite its name it is an estate house rather than a fortress.

Kelso Town Hall

Tourism office

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Kelso Town Hall is a municipal building in The Square, Kelso, Scotland. The building, which was the headquarters of Kelso Burgh Council, is a Category B listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kelso and Ednam.

Kelso is a small market town in the Borders region of southern Scotland, with a population of 6900 in 2020. Its name probably derives from Calk Heugh - the "chalk outcrop" which its two rivers cut through.

Ednam

Village

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Ednam is a small village near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Floors Castle is nearby. The village was formerly in Roxburghshire. Its name is a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon "Edenham", i.e. the town on Eden Water.

Sprouston

Village

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sprouston is a village, parish and former feudal barony in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, as well as the historic county of Roxburghshire, located 2 miles north-east of Kelso.

Mellen Dean

Type: Deciduous forest
Category: forest
Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.6005° or 55° 36′ 2″ north

Longitude

-2.4097° or 2° 24′ 35″ west

Open location code

9C7VJH2R+54

OpenStreetMap ID

way 139243196

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

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