Scot’s Plantation
Scot’s Plantation is a coniferous forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Scot’s Plantation is situated nearby to the hamlet Lightfield, as well as near Darlingfield.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Greenknowe Tower and Mellerstain House.
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.
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.
Legerwood Kirk
Church
Photo: Jimmydenham, Public domain.
Legerwood Kirk is an ancient and historic Church of Scotland church in the former county of Berwickshire, Scotland. It is situated half a mile east of the hamlet of Legerwood and 6.5 miles south east of Lauder in the Scottish Borders, on an unclassified road east of the A68 highway at grid reference NT593433.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gordon and Earlston.
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.
Earlston
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Earlston is a civil parish and market town in the county of Berwickshire, within the Scottish Borders. It is on the River Leader in Lauderdale, Scotland.
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.
Scot’s Plantation
- Type: Coniferous forest
- Category: forest
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.6649° or 55° 39′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.5876° or 2° 35′ 16″ westOpen location code
9C7VMC76+WWOpenStreetMap ID
way 181144135OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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Satellite Map
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lightfield and Darlingfield.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Henless Plantation and Greenknowe Moss.
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