Long Raxes
Long Raxes is a coniferous forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Long Raxes is situated nearby to the hamlet Darlingfield, as well as near Fans.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.
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 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.
Long Raxes
- Type: Coniferous forest
- Category: forest
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.6538° or 55° 39′ 14″ northLongitude
-2.5851° or 2° 35′ 7″ westOpen location code
9C7VMC37+GWOpenStreetMap ID
way 181144136OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Darlingfield and Fans.
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Highlights include Fans Hill and Henless Plantation.
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