Moor Plantation

Moor Plantation is a forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Moor Plantation is situated near the hamlet Sunlawshill, as well as near Old Ormiston.

Places of Interest

Highlights: Wallace’s Tower and Roxburgh Viaduct.

Wallace’s Tower

Archaeological site

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wallace's Tower is a ruined 16th-century L-plan tower house, about 3 miles south west Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland, in Roxburgh, west of the River Teviot.

Roxburgh Viaduct

Bridge

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Roxburgh Viaduct is a bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kelso and Roxburgh.

Kelso is a small market town in the Borders region of southern Scotland, with a population of 6900 in 2020. Its name probably derives from Calk Heugh - the "chalk outcrop" which its two rivers cut through.

Roxburgh

Village

Roxburgh is a village off the A699, by the River Teviot, near Kelso in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It should not be confused with the historic royal burgh of Roxburgh, the site of which lies about 2 miles northeast of the present village.

Eckford

Village

Photo: james denham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Eckford is a small village located between the larger towns of Kelso and Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. The village is in close proximity to both the River Teviot and its tributary the Kale Water, and the A698 and the B6401 which run approximately parallel to the respective rivers.

Moor Plantation

Type: Forest
Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.5502° or 55° 33′ 1″ north

Longitude

-2.4672° or 2° 28′ 2″ west

Open location code

9C7VHG2M+34

OpenStreetMap ID

way 909731532

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Sunlawshill and Old Ormiston.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Glen Plantation and Mount Plantation.

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