Black Strip

Black Strip is a coniferous forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Black Strip is situated nearby to the hamlet Huntington, as well as near Newbigging.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thirlestane Castle and Black Bull Hotel, 9 Market Place, Lauder.

Thirlestane Castle

Museum

Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Thirlestane Castle is a castle set in extensive parklands near Lauder in the Borders of Scotland. The site is aptly named Castle Hill, as it stands upon raised ground.

Black Bull Hotel, 9 Market Place, Lauder

Hotel

Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lauder and Addinston.

Lauder is a market town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. Historically part of the historic county of Berwickshire, on the Southern Upland Way, the town lies near the Leader Water, and is approximately 53 miles southeast of Perth, 78 miles east-southeast of Glasgow, and 27 miles southeast of Edinburgh, on the western edge of the Lammermuir Hills.

Addinston

Hamlet

Addinston is a farming village, off the A697, close to the Carfraemill roundabout, with two hill forts and settlements, in Lauderdale in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Berwickshire.

Oxton

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oxton is a small rural village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, just off the A68. It is 4+1⁄2 miles north of Lauder, and 20 mi southeast of the centre of Edinburgh, in a quiet rural position.

Black Strip

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

55.7358° or 55° 44′ 9″ north

Longitude

-2.7306° or 2° 43′ 50″ west

Open location code

9C7VP7P9+8Q

OpenStreetMap ID

way 209292364

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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