Dolphin Plantation
Dolphin Plantation is a forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Dolphin Plantation is situated nearby to the hamlet Makerstoun, as well as near Manorhill.Places of Interest
Highlights include Smailholm Tower and Wallace’s Tower.
Smailholm Tower
Photo: Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Smailholm Tower is a peel tower at Smailholm, around five miles west of Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Its dramatic situation, atop a crag of Lady Hill, commands wide views over the surrounding countryside.
Wallace’s Tower
Archaeological site
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wallace's Tower is a ruined 16th-century L-plan tower house, about 3 miles south west Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland, in Roxburgh, west of the River Teviot.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kelso and Roxburgh.
Kelso
Photo: Meho29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Roxburgh
Village
Roxburgh is a village off the A699, by the River Teviot, near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It should not be confused with the historic royal burgh of Roxburgh, the site of which lies about 2 miles northeast of the present village.
Smailholm
Village
Photo: Steve Kent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Smailholm is a small village in the historic county of Roxburghshire in south-east Scotland. It is at grid reference NT648364 and straddles the B6397 Gordon to Kelso road.
Dolphin Plantation
- Type: Forest
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.5832° or 55° 34′ 60″ northLongitude
-2.5291° or 2° 31′ 45″ westOpen location code
9C7VHFMC+79OpenStreetMap ID
way 142736754OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Makerstoun and Manorhill.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Stackyard Plantation and Long Plantation.
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