Coltcrooks Plantation

Coltcrooks Plantation is a coniferous forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Coltcrooks Plantation is situated nearby to the locality Hardies Mill, as well as near the hamlet Lightfield.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mellerstain House and Greenknowe 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.

Greenknowe Tower

Castle

Photo: Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Greenknowe Tower is a 16th-century tower house, located just west of the village of Gordon, in the Scottish Borders. Although a roofless ruin, the stonework of the tower is well preserved, and represents a fine example of a later tower house, built more as a residence rather than as a place of defence.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gordon and Smailholm.

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.

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.

Hume

Village

Photo: Greg5030, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hume is a village in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. On the B6364, it lies 7 miles from Kelso, Roxburghshire. It is close to other villages and amenities, e.g. Brotherstone Hill, Smailholm, Smailholm Tower, Floors Castle, Stichill, Lambden, Nenthorn, Ednam, Birgham and Gordon.

Coltcrooks Plantation

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

55.6572° or 55° 39′ 26″ north

Longitude

-2.5511° or 2° 33′ 4″ west

Open location code

9C7VMC4X+VH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 150493852

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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