Girley Wood
Girley Wood is a coniferous forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Girley Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Old Howford, as well as near Glenormiston.Places of Interest
Highlights include Traquair House and Kailzie Gardens.
Traquair House
Photo: marsroverdriver, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Traquair House, approximately 7 miles southeast of Peebles, is claimed to be the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland. Whilst not strictly a castle, it is built in the style of a fortified mansion.
Kailzie Gardens
Garden
Photo: Kay Atherton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kailzie Gardens is a walled garden near Kirkburn in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the Tweed valley, 2.5 miles east of Peebles, off the B7062.
Horsburgh Castle
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Horsburgh Castle, also known as Horsbrugh Castle or Horsbrugh Tower, is a ruined tower house castle by the River Tweed, on the A72 road from Peebles to Galashiels, near Glentress in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peebles and Innerleithen.
Peebles
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Peebles is a town in the Scottish Borders, with a population in 2020 of 9000. The name is Brythonic: pebyll meant "tents" or a temporary dwelling place.
Innerleithen
Town
Photo: Dauntless111, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Innerleithen is a market town and civil parish in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scottish Borders. It was formerly in the historic county of Peeblesshire or Tweeddale.
Cardrona
Village
Photo: Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cardrona is a village on the A72 and B7062, between Peebles and Innerleithen, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. Places nearby include Glentress, Kirkburn, Scottish Borders, Kirkhouse, Traquair, and Walkerburn.
Girley Wood
- Type: Coniferous forest
- Category: forest
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.6241° or 55° 37′ 27″ northLongitude
-3.0984° or 3° 5′ 54″ westOpen location code
9C7RJWF2+JJOpenStreetMap ID
way 1533605387OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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