Minciemoss Plantation

Minciemoss Plantation is a forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Minciemoss Plantation is situated nearby to the hamlet Rachelfield, as well as near Darlingfield.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mellerstain House and Smailholm Tower.

Mellerstain House

Photo: Steve Kent, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mellerstain House is a Scottish country house around 8 miles north of Kelso in the Borders, Scotland. It is currently the home of George Baillie-Hamilton, 14th Earl of Haddington, and is designated as a historical monument.

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.

Brotherstone Hill

Peak

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Brotherstone Hill is a hill near St. Boswells and the Eildon Hills in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, with two standing stones from the megalithic age, on the summit of Brotherstone Hill, at a height of 418 metres.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Earlston and Smailholm.

Earlston

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Earlston is a historic market town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. Historically part of the county of Berwickshire, the town lies on the River Leader in Lauderdale, and is approximately 29 miles south-southeast of Edinburgh, 63 miles east-southeast of Glasgow, and 58 miles south-southeast of Perth.

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.

Gordon

Village

Photo: Jimmydenham, Public domain.

Gordon is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, within the historic county of Berwickshire. The village sits on the crossroads of the A6105 Earlston to Berwick on Tweed road and the A6089 Edinburgh to Kelso road.

Minciemoss Plantation

Type: Forest
Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.6399° or 55° 38′ 24″ north

Longitude

-2.5846° or 2° 35′ 5″ west

Open location code

9C7VJCQ8+W5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 150480111

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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