West Strips
West Strips is a coniferous forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. West Strips is situated nearby to the hamlet Sorrowlessfield Mains, as well as near Kittyfield.Places of Interest
Highlights include Harmony Garden and Commendator’s House, Melrose Abbey.
Harmony Garden
Garden
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Harmony Garden is the garden of Harmony Hall which is in the town of Melrose, in the Scottish Borders, administered by the National Trust for Scotland.
Commendator’s House, Melrose Abbey
Museum
Photo: Martin Dawes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Commendator’s House, Melrose Abbey is a museum.
Priorwood Garden
Photo: Tom Parnell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Priorwood Garden is a garden in Melrose in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. The garden contains an apple orchard of unusual apple trees. The flower garden is planted to supply the best samples for dry flower arrangements.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melrose and Galashiels.
Melrose
Photo: LeCardinal, CC BY 3.0.
Melrose is a town in the Borders Region of southern Scotland, with a population of 2,510 in 2016. It's nowadays a commuter town for Edinburgh, and service town for the Borders General Hospital.
Galashiels
Photo: John Brewer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders, 33 miles south of Edinburgh. It's a former mill town which is now part of commuterland for the city, and in 2016 had a population of about 12,600.
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.
West Strips
- Type: Coniferous forest
- Category: forest
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.6211° or 55° 37′ 16″ northLongitude
-2.7056° or 2° 42′ 20″ westOpen location code
9C7VJ7CV+CQOpenStreetMap ID
way 233691040OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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Satellite Map
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Sorrowlessfield Mains and Kittyfield.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hut Wood and Gattonside Moss.
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