High Wood
High Wood is a forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. High Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Glenormiston, as well as near the village Cardrona.Places of Interest
Highlights include Traquair House and Robert Smail’s Printing Works, 5, 7 And 9 High Street, Innerleithen.
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.
Robert Smail’s Printing Works, 5, 7 And 9 High Street, Innerleithen
Museum
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Robert Smail’s Printing Works, 5, 7 And 9 High Street, Innerleithen is a museum.
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 Innerleithen and Cardrona.
Innerleithen
Town
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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.
Walkerburn
Village
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Walkerburn is a small village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the A72 about 8 miles from Peebles and 10 miles from Galashiels. It was founded in 1854 to house the workers for the tweed mills owned by the Ballantyne family.
High Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.636° or 55° 38′ 10″ northLongitude
-3.0831° or 3° 4′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C7RJWP8+CQOpenStreetMap ID
way 909279387OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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